not a valid choice in django restframework serializer - django-rest-framework

Question

i set my post model with choice and migrate model.
after that i create postserializer for create
and i run the server and post with data in postman for test,
but i got the 'is not a valid choice' err on serializer.
here is my model,
class Post(models.Model):
CATEGORY_CHOICES = (
('mc', 'MIRACLE'),
('hw', 'HOMEWORK')
)
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
category = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES)
content = models.TextField()
author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
serializer,
class PostCreateSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = '__all__'
view
class PostAPI(APIView):
def post(self, request):
data = {
'title' :request.data['title'],
'category':request.data['category'],
'content' :request.data['content'],
'author' :request.user.id
}
serializer = PostCreateSerializer(data=data)
if serializer.is_valid():
serializer.save()
else:
print(serializer.erros)
...
and request data (in Postman)
{
'title':'test_title',
'category':'HOMEWORK',
'content':'test_content'
}
result is
{'category': [ErrorDetail(string='"HOMEWORK" is not a valid choice.', code='invalid_choice')]}
i tried request with changing category 'HOMEWORK' to 'hw'
then it works
but i want request with large one

Answer 1

Your error on serialize level. Try this
readable_to_choice = {"HOMEWORK": "hw", "MIRACLE": "mc"}
data = {'title' :request.data['title'],
'category': readable_to_choice.get(request.data['category']),
'content' :request.data['content'],
'author' :request.user.id}
serializer = PostCreateSerializer(data=data)
UPD: you should make your api func like this:
serializer = PostCreateSerializer(data=request.data)
serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
print(serializer.data) # do logic with that data
and try to override to_internal_value method in your serializer. for example:
def to_internal_value(self, data):
readable_to_choice = {"HOMEWORK": "hw", "MIRACLE": "mc"}
data["category"] = readable_to_choice.get(data["category"])
res = super().to_internal_value(data)
return res
I think this way is more accurate