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 avoid passing the user in your request and you won't see it in the output but DRF will populate it automatically:

from rest_framework import serializers

class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    user = serializers.HiddenField(default=serializers.CurrentUserDefault())

    class Meta:
        model = models.MyModel
        fields = (
            'user',
            'other',
            'fields',
        )