Hello,
I’m using the Django REST framework.
I have a GET endpoint in a view where I want to ensure that parameter values are supplied when a request is made.
To do this, I pass the values supplied in the request through to a serializer, which looks like this:
from rest_framework import serializers
class MySerializer(serializers.Serializer):
a = serializers.CharField(required=True, allow_null=False, allow_blank=False)
b = serializers.CharField(required=True, allow_null=False, allow_blank=False)
In the get() method in the view, I do this:
request = MySerializer(data={"a": kwargs["a"], "b": kwargs["b"]})
if request.is_valid():
... do stuff...
If I run a unit test to send a request where the supplied value for b is None, like this:
params = {"a": "value", "b": None}
url = reverse("my-view-name", kwargs=params)
client.get(url, **DEFAULTS)
… the serializer considers the request to be valid. I would expect it not be valid as the value of b is None.
If I print the value of str(request.data), I see this:
{'a': 'value', b': 'None'}
This seems like a simple issue so I must be doing something obviously incorrect. Could anyone assist, please?
Thank you in advance.