Assertion error at: Django-rest-Framework

Question

I am using python 3.4, Django 1.7.1 (the version considered in the book), Postgres 9.3 and my IDE is Eclipse.

I have been studying the book \"Lightweight Django - Elman

Answer 1

Read the DRF docs here.

In version 2.x a serializer class could sometimes automatically determine the queryset argument if a ModelSerializer class was being used.

This behavior is now replaced with always using an explicit queryset argument for writable relational fields.

You are just using a newer version of DRF than the authors of the code used, so you'll need to either use a lower version or fix the code.

In serializers.py there's this line:

assigned = serializers.SlugRelatedField(slug_field=User.USERNAME_FIELD, required=False)

You need to either add read_only=True or queryset=User.objects.all()