website/thaliawebsite/api/v2/serializers/cleaned_model_serializer.py
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
from rest_framework import serializers
from rest_framework.exceptions import ValidationError as DRFValidationError
from rest_framework.serializers import raise_errors_on_nested_writes
from rest_framework.utils import model_meta
class CleanedModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
"""Custom ModelSerializer that explicitly clean's a model before it is saved."""
def create(self, validated_data):
"""Reraise ValidationErrors as DRF validation errors.
No need to explicitly clean(), because under the hood, DRF uses
.create() which does perform a clean().
"""
try:
return super().create(validated_data)
except ValidationError as e:
raise DRFValidationError(e) from e
def update(self, instance, validated_data, **kwargs):
"""Override the default implementation of DRF's ModelSerializer.
Adds `instance.clean()` to make sure all updates still clean().
Also re-raises ValidationErrors to DRF ValidationErrors.
"""
raise_errors_on_nested_writes("update", self, validated_data)
info = model_meta.get_field_info(instance)
# Simply set each attribute on the instance, and then save it.
# Note that unlike `.create()` we don't need to treat many-to-many
# relationships as being a special case. During updates we already
# have an instance pk for the relationships to be associated with.
m2m_fields = []
for attr, value in validated_data.items():
if attr in info.relations and info.relations[attr].to_many:
m2m_fields.append((attr, value))
else:
setattr(instance, attr, value)
try:
instance.clean()
except ValidationError as e:
raise DRFValidationError(e) from e
instance.save()
# Note that many-to-many fields are set after updating instance.
# Setting m2m fields triggers signals which could potentially change
# updated instance and we do not want it to collide with .update()
for attr, value in m2m_fields:
field = getattr(instance, attr)
field.set(value)
return instance