[Answered ]-Accessing user in django rest framework

You get it from the context that was passed to the serializer. This is done automatically for you, so you can access it like that:

user = self.context['request'].user

If you want to have the ability to specify another user, you can add it to the context yourself:

# This method goes in your view/viewset
def get_serializer_context(self):
    context = super().get_serializer_context()
    context['user'] = #whatever you want here
    return context

That would make the user available as self.context['user']. This is a bit more verbose, but it is more versalite as it allows the serializer to be passed a user different from the one who did the request.