Do I need to explicitly use transactions with Django Rest Framework serializer updates?

Question

According to http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/#writable-nested-representations, in order to accept a nested serializer I need to create an up

Answer 1

You can also use Django's ATOMIC_REQUESTS database setting which will apply a transaction before the execution of each request and commit it if the request finishes successfully. More information here:

Database transactions - Tying transactions to HTTP requests