I am currently making a REST API that people can register themselves via. And I am just about to write the validations for how long/complex passwords should be etc. when it occurred to me there maybe is a way to mimic the default constraints that the model have set already? Is there?
My code for serializer.py looks like the following:
from rest_framework import serializers
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from rest_framework.reverse import reverse
User = get_user_model()
class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
links = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('id', 'username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'password', 'groups', 'user_permissions', 'is_staff', 'is_active', 'is_superuser', 'last_login', 'date_joined', 'links')
def get_links(self, obj):
request = self.context['request']
username = obj.get_username()
return{
'self': reverse('user-detail', kwargs={User.USERNAME_FIELD: username}, request=request)
}
def validate(self, attrs):
#...
Thanks