django rest framework create user with password

Question

Using django-rest-framework 3 and django 1.8

I am trying to create a user using django-rest-framework ModelViewSerializer. problem is that the default objects.create m

Answer 1

In addition to @aliva's answer where you miss out on the functionalities in serializers.Modelserializer.create() (which could be quite nice to preserve, for example handling of many-to-many relations), there is a way to keep this.

By using the user.set_password() method, the password can also be correctly set, like:

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    def create(self, validated_data):
        user = super().create(validated_data)
        user.set_password(validated_data['password'])
        user.save()
        return user

This has the benefit of keeping the super class' functionality, but the downside of an additional write to the database. Decide which trade-off is more important to you :-).

Edit: Fix syntax error

Edit2: jkatzer's comment makes a lot of sense. I don't have the environment set up at the moment to look at it, and i also don't recall if there was more changes I'd made to this solution that did not put in the post. But looking at it now I'm agreeing with this comment, should probably do something more in the lines of Alwx's answer....