django rest framework create nested objects “Models” by POST

Question

I\'m trying POST a new a Nested Object, the problem is just create the \"top\" object (Playlist), but don\'t create the \"ChannelItem\"...

My Models:

Answer 1

For me, I have a hybrid workaround that I'm OK with. Namely, create a view that has:

• the ManyToMany field in its un-nested serializer form
• alias the nested ManyToMany field into a variable with _objs as the suffix and specify it as as read only
• when you PUT back to the server reconcile the two aliased fields and store the result in the un-nested serializer field

e.g.

class MSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    foo_objs = TempSensorSerializer(source='foos', many=True, allow_add_remove=True,required=False,read_only=True)
    class Meta:
        model = M
        fields = ('url', 'foos', 'foo_objs')

I don't love this solution, but it beats trying to separately query and collate the nested fields after retrieving the initial container.