[Solved]-Returning id value after object creation with django-rest-framework

Here, DetectorSerializer inherits from ModelSerializer as well as your view inherits from generics ListCreateAPIView so when a POST request is made to the view, it should return the id as well as all the attributes defined in the fields of the Serializer.

Because it took me a few minutes to parse this answer when I had the same problem, I thought I’d summarize for posterity:

The generic view ListCreateApiView does return the created object.

This is also clear from the documentation listcreateapiview: the view extends createmodelmixin, which states:

If an object is created this returns a 201 Created response, with a serialized representation of the object as the body of the response.

So if you have this problem take a closer look at your client side!

post$.pipe(tap(res => console.log(res)))

should print the newly created object (assuming rxjs6 and ES6 syntax)

As mentioned above, To retrieve the id for the new created object, We need to override the post method, find the the update code for more details:

class DetectorAPIList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    serializer_class = DetectorSerializer
    permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,)
    parser_classes = (MultiPartParser, FileUploadParser,)

        def post(self, request, format=None):
        serializer = DetectorSerializer(data=request.data)
        if serializer.is_valid():
            obj = serializer.save()
            return Response(obj.id, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
        return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)