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Serializer with ImageField and FileField

Serializer with ImageField and FileField

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Serializer with ImageField and FileField

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- [Narrator] Through the REST API we should be able to update existing product images or upload new product photos. So, let's add the photo field. Go to the product serializer. We add the photo field. And we add it to the list of fields... in meta. Recall that serializer fields can be set as read-only. They can also be set as write-only. This means that when we write to the field the data does not get saved to the model. Now let's do something more interesting. We're going to allow the uploading of a warranty file for a product. We use the file field for this, but since the product model does not have a warranty file field in the model itself, we're going to be adding the write-only configuration option. We're going to override... the update method, so that we can make use of the warranty field. If a warranty file is supplied, we're going to add it to the description of the product. We read-in all the lines from the file, and then we return the instance. Validated data in the update…

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