Django REST Framework serializer field required=false

Question

from the documentation:

read_only Set this to True to ensure that the field is used when serializing a representation, but is not used when updating

Answer 1

Late Entry to this thread. This issue was fixed in django-rest-framework 2.3.13. Here is the link of the PR.

You use it like this in your case:

    class Meta:
        model = models.FavoriteList
        optional_fields = ['owner', ]