How to do a PUT (partial update) using generics in Django-Rest-Framework?

Question

If I have a class view that looks like this,

class MovieDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    queryset = Movie.objects.all()
    serializer_cla         


        

Answer 1

Or you can just overwrite the get_serializer() method as:

  def get_serializer(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['partial'] = True
        return super(MovieDetail, self).get_serializer(*args, **kwargs)

It is especially useful when the front-end guy use the ngResource of the AngularJS to call your API, which only supports the 'put' instead of the 'patch' by default.

Hope it helps.