I have a Django project that is using Django Rest Framework. For some reason, when I go to one of my endpoints (to make a PATCH/PUT request), I am not seeing any of the form fields in the browsable API. Here is the code for the resource:
models.py
from django.db import models
class Patient(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
diagnosis = models.CharField(max_length=200)
primary_doctor = models.ForeignKey('Doctor', related_name='patients', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
born_on = models.DateField()
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
def __str__(self):
return "{0.first_name} {0.last_name}".format(self)
views.py
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.generics import RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework import status
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from ..models.patient import Patient
from ..serializers import PatientSerializer
class Patients(APIView):
def get(sef, request):
patients = Patient.objects.all()[:10]
serializer = PatientSerializer(patients, many=True)
return Response(serializer.data)
serializer_class = PatientSerializer
def post(self, request):
patient = PatientSerializer(data=request.data)
if patient.is_valid():
patient.save()
return Response(patient.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
else:
return Response(patient.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
class PatientDetail(APIView):
def get(self, request, pk):
patient = get_object_or_404(Patient, pk=pk)
serializer = PatientSerializer(patient)
return Response(serializer.data)
serializer_class = PatientSerializer
def patch(self, request, pk):
patient = get_object_or_404(Patient, pk=pk)
serializer = PatientSerializer(patient, data=request.data['patient'])
if serializer.is_valid():
serializer.save()
return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_202_ACCEPTED)
else:
return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
def delete(self, request, pk):
patient = get_object_or_404(Patient, pk)
patient.delete()
return Response(status=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)
serializers.py
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models.patient import Patient
class PatientSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Patient
fields = ('id', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'diagnosis', 'born_on', 'primary_doctor', 'created_at', 'updated_at')
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from .views.doctor_views import Doctors, DoctorDetail
from .views.patient_views import Patients, PatientDetail
urlpatterns = [
path('doctors/', Doctors.as_view(), name='doctors'),
path('doctors/<int:pk>/', DoctorDetail.as_view(), name='doctor_detail'),
path('patients/', Patients.as_view(), name='patients'),
path('patients/<int:pk>/', PatientDetail.as_view(), name='patient_detail'),
]
This is what the browser looks like when I go to '/patients/3'. There are no form fields to fill out, only a content area for JSON. When I go to POST at '/patients', the form fields appear and I can POST fine. Could anyone tell me why this might be happening?
