I am building a Django chat app that uses Django Rest Framework. I created a MessageViewSet that extends ModelViewSet to show all of the message objects:
class MessageViewSet(ModelViewSet):
queryset = Message.objects.all()
serializer_class = MessageSerializer
This chat app also uses Channels and when a user sends a POST request, I would like to do something channels-realted, but I can't find a way to see what kind of request is made. Is there any way to access the request method in a ModelViewSet?
Rest Framework
viewsets
map the http methods:GET
,PUT
,POST
, andDELETE
to view methods namedlist
,update
,create
, anddestroy
respectively; so in your case, you would need to override thecreate
method: