Per Field Permission in Django REST Framework

Question

I am using Django REST Framework to serialize a Django model. I have a ListCreateAPIView view to list the objects and a RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView view to retrieve/update

Answer 1

I figured out a way to do it. In the serializer, I have access to both the object and the user making the API request. I can therefore check if the requestor is the owner of the object and return the private information. If they are not, the serializer will return an empty string.

class UserInfoSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    private_field1 = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_private_field1')

    class Meta:
        model = UserInfo
        fields = (
            'id',
            'public_field1',
            'public_field2',
            'private_field1',
        )
        read_only_fields = ('id')

    def get_private_field1(self, obj):
        # obj.created_by is the foreign key to the user model
        if obj.created_by != self.context['request'].user:
            return ""
        else:
            return obj.private_field1