[Fixed]-Django REST – Create object with foreign key using serializers

Using nested serializers makes it really hard for posts (if it even works, as it didn’t used to work), and given your simple models, I would recommend just removing them.

I will recommend you add APIs for

/api/v1/type
/api/v1/manufacturer
/api/v1/info

(or whatever names you want to use). The type and manufacturer ones should be vanilla views and using your existing serializers.

For info, remove the two nested serializers:

class EquipmentInfoSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = EquipmentInfo
        fields = ('id', 'equipment_type', 'part_identifier', 'manufacturer_name','serial_number', 'date_of_manufacture', 'is_active')

After that, you should be able to do post using:

data = {
  "equipment_type": 5,  # The ID of the equipment type record
  "part_identifier":"something_new",
  "manufacturer_name": 10 # The ID of the manufacturer record
  "serial_number":"WBA1",
  "date_of_manufacture": "1900-01-01",
  "is_active":true
}

In my case, I do like making it the GETs more convenient so I add read-only fields to return a name (or even the whole serialized record):

class EquipmentInfoSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    type_name = serializers.SerializerMethodField(read_only=True)

    class Meta:
        model = EquipmentInfo
        fields = ('id', 'equipment_type', 'part_identifier', 'manufacturer_name','serial_number', 'date_of_manufacture', 'is_active')

    def get_type_name(self, obj):
       return obj.equipment_type.equipment_type

Hope this helps.

I have also faced the problem ,and have solved it ,the following is my step ,hope it will be helpful
1.company Model and contact model as follows:

class Company(models.Model):
    Company_Name = models.CharField(u'Company Name',max_length=255, default="")
    Modified_By = models.CharField(u'Modified By',max_length=255, default="")



class Company_Contact(models.Model):
     Company = models.ForeignKey(Company)
     Last_Name = models.CharField(u'Last Name',max_length=255, default="")
     First_Name = models.CharField(u'First Name',max_length=255, default="")

2.I create A New Serializer Named CompanyReferenceSerializer,and company_contact

class CompanyReferenceSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
    model = Company
    fields = ['id', 'Company_Name', 'Company_Name_SC']





class CompanyContactSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
   Company =  CompanyReferenceSerializer()
class Meta:
    model = Company_Contact
    fields = ['Company', 'Last_Name','First_Name']
    extra_kwargs = {
        'Company': {'allow_null': True, 'required': False},
        'Last_Name': {'allow_null': True, 'allow_blank': True, 'required': False}, 
        'First_Name': {'allow_null': True, 'required': False, 'allow_blank': True},     
    }

3.Viewset as follows,in the backend,I get the object Namedcompany_instanceaccording to the ‘company_id’

class CompanyContactViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     serializer_class = CompanyContactSerializer
def create(self, validated_data):
    serializer = self.get_serializer(data=self.request.data)
    company_id_for_contact =  self.request.data.pop('Company_id')
    company_instance = Company.objects.filter(id=company_id_for_contact).first()
    if not serializer.is_valid():
        print serializer.errors
    data = serializer.validated_data
    serializer.save(Company=company_instance)
    headers = self.get_success_headers(serializer.data)
    return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED, headers=headers) 

and I success insert one record in the company_contact ,Hope it can help you !