How to set current user to user field in Django Rest Framework?

Question

I have the following code working perfectly. I can create a Post object from DRF panel by selecting an image and a user. However I want DRF to populate the user

Answer 1

You can use CurrentUserDefault:

user = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(
    read_only=True, 
    default=serializers.CurrentUserDefault()
)