Requirements

• Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11

• Django 3.2, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 (basically works with older versions as well, but they’re EOL)

• Django REST Framework 3.8 or newer (probably works on any 3.x version)

Installation

pip install drf-crud-proxy

Usage

Import the generic views and subclass your own views from them. Specify request_serializer_class and/or response_serializer_class to the view (both default to DRF’s own serializer_class attribute).

# api/views.py

from drf_crud_proxy import generics
from app.models import MyModel
from api.serializers import MyModelCreateSerializer, MyModelSerializer


class MyModelListCreateView(generics.ProxiedListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    request_serializer_class = MyModelCreateSerializer
    response_serializer_class = MyModelSerializer

The incoming request is handled with MyModelCreateSerializer and the response with MyModelSerializer.

If you want to customize the data on either situation, override get_request_data and/or get_response_data methods in the view.

The package also supports the so-called PUT-as-create behavior that was removed from DRF in its 3.0 release. Note that the user has to have model permissions for the corresponding create behavior (POST request).

NOTE: The PUT-as-create functionality doesn’t have tests (yet).

License

MIT

Inspiration

This functionality in DRF is something I’ve needed in numerous Django projects, so hopefully this will help someone else too :)

This package has been built on top of the ideas presented by the great vintasoftware’s drf-rw-serializers (https://github.com/vintasoftware/drf-rw-serializers) package. Thanks!