How to get Request User in Django-Rest-Framework serializer

Question

I've tried something like this, it does not work.

class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = Post

    def save(self):
        user = self.context['request.user']
        title = self.validated_data['title']
        article = self.validated_data['article']

I need a way of being able to access request.user from my Serializer class.

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

You cannot access the request.user directly. You need to access the request object, and then fetch the user attribute.

Like this:

user =  self.context['request'].user

Or to be more safe,

user = None
request = self.context.get("request")
if request and hasattr(request, "user"):
    user = request.user

Hope it helps!!

Thank you!!