[Fixed]-Accessing Request Object in Viewset and Serializers in Django Rest Framework?

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You don’t need to include request object in the context as the generic views passes request object to the serializer context.

DRF Source code snippet:

# rest_framework/generics.py
def get_serializer_context(self):
    """
    Extra context provided to the serializer class.
    """
    return {
        'request': self.request, # request object is passed here
        'format': self.format_kwarg,
        'view': self
    }

In your serializer, you can access the request object using .context attribute.

The context dictionary can be used within any serializer field logic,
such as a custom .to_representation() method, by accessing the
self.context attribute.

class ProductSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):

    get_sr_price = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_sr_price_func')

    def get_sr_price_func(self, obj):
        return self.context['request'].user # access the request object

👤Rahul Gupta