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

Ok, my previous answer, though could be an issue, isn't the root cause of the actual crash.

When calling the serializer, you set:

instance = serializer.save(author=self.request.user)

However, author is a ManyToManyField which means you should call the serializer as:

instance = serializer.save(author=[self.request.user])

NB: you still require the many=True on the serializer's author field.