How to Force Current User to a Field in Django Rest Framework

[erayerdin]

Consider I have models, a serializer and a viewset as below:

# models.py

class Foo(models.Model):
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User, models.CASCADE, related_name="bars")

# serializers.py

class FooSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    owner = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(
        default=serializers.CurrentUserDefault(),
        queryset=User.objects.all(),
    )

    class Meta:
        fields = ["pk", "owner"]

# viewsets.py

# registered to /api/foos/
class FooViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    serializer_class = FooSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]
    queryset = Foo.objects.all()

So, when I send a POST request to /api/foos/ with an empty body, it creates a Foo instance with its owner field set to the current logged-in user, which is fine.

However, I also want to totally ignore what the currently authenticated user sends as a value to owner. For example, if I do a POST request to /api/foos/ with body user=5 (another user, basically), CurrentUserDefault sets the Foo.owner to that user, which is not the behavior I want to have.

I always want to have the current authenticated user as the value of the field owner of a new Foo instance, or, in other words, I want FooSerializer.owner field to be set as currently authenticated user as a value and ignore what is sent on POST request as a value of owner.

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance.

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Environment

• django ^2.2
• djangorestframework ^3.12.4

[erayerdin]

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