Django many-to-many model DRF

Question

I have the following model structure:

class Project(models.Model):
  author = models.ManyToManyField(Account)
  name = models.CharField(max_length=40, default=\'         


        

Answer 1

Since your Author field is many to many, you will need to override the create method on your serializer.

def create(self, validated_data):
     author = validated_data.pop(author, None)
     project = Project.objects.save(validated_data)
     if author:
         project.author.add(author)

You will also probably need to set the update method on the serializer, the behavior here can be tricky so make sure you test and make sure the behavior is what you expect.