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

If you have unique_together constraint on one of the fields you are trying to set required=False you need to set validators=[] in serializers Meta like

class FavoriteListSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    owner = serializers.IntegerField(required=False)
    class Meta:
        model = models.FavoriteList
        validators = []

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