DRF 3 - Creating Many-to-Many update/create serializer with though table

Question

I am trying to create a reference app in DRF 3 to demonstrate a nested serializer that can create/update models. The sample code below bombs with \"*create() argument after **

Answer 1

Use PrimaryKeyRelatedField shown here:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#primarykeyrelatedfield

class GroupSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    persons = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(
        many=True, queryset=Person.objects.all())

    class Meta:
        model = Group
        fields = ('name', 'persons')

Create each person first, for example. Person with ID 1, Name = "Bob". Person with ID 2, Name = "Tim". Then post them to the REST Endpoint using their primary keys So:

# Group create() REST endpoint data to POST
{'name': 'my group', 'persons': [1, 2]}

Now the people that you had created prior, are part of that Group.