I have an API endpoint that allow users to register an account. I would like to return HTTP 409 instead of 400 for a duplicate username.
Here is my serializer:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from rest_framework.serializers import ModelSerializer
class UserSerializer(ModelSerializer):
username = CharField()
def validate_username(self, value):
if User.objects.filter(username=value).exists():
raise NameDuplicationError()
return value
class NameDuplicationError(APIException):
status_code = status.HTTP_409_CONFLICT
default_detail = u'Duplicate Username'
When the error is triggered, the response is: {"detail":"Duplicate Username"}
. I realised that if I subclass APIException, the key detail
is used instead of username
.
I want to have this response instead {"username":"Duplicate Username"}
or I would like to specify a status code when raising a ValidationError:
def validate_username(self, value):
if User.objects.filter(username=value).exists():
raise serializers.ValidationError('Duplicate Username',
status_code=status.HTTP_409_CONFLICT)
return value
But this does not work as ValidationError
only returns 400.
Is there any other way to accomplish this?