I am using Django REST framework to come up with a REST api for my app.
In one of my views, I am trying to use many=True
when initializing my serializer object in order to bulk_insert multiple rows at once. The problem is that if one of the records in the dataset is invalid, serializer's is_valid()
method return False
, thus rejecting the entire dataset. Whereas the desired behavior would be inserting valid records and ignoring invalid ones.
I have succeed in achieving this using the following code, but I have a terrible feeling that this is junk code and the REST framework has a native way to do this.
My code below (that I consider junk code :)):
serializers.py
class MySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = CalendarEventAttendee
fields = '__all__'
view.py
def my_view(request):
validated_data = []
# Separate valid data from invalid
for record in request.data:
if MySerializer(data = record).is_valid():
validated_data.append(record)
# bulk_insert valid data
serializer = MySerializer(data=validated_data, many=True)
if serializer.is_valid():
serializer.save()
Can anyone suggest a better approach ?