Update a specific value in serializer

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1

Hello everyone,

I want to decrypt the patient id value in SampleSerializer. But I don’t know how to do this. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.

views.py

> class SamplesViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
>     queryset = Samples.objects.all().order_by('id')
>     serializer_class = SamplesSerializer

encrypt_util.py

> from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
> import base64
> import logging
> import traceback
> from django.conf import settings
> 
> def encrypt(pas):
>     try:
>         pas = str(pas)
>         cipher_pass = Fernet(settings.ENCRYPT_KEY)
>         encrypt_pass = cipher_pass.encrypt(pas.encode('ascii'))
>         encrypt_pass = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(encrypt_pass).decode("ascii")
>         return encrypt_pass
>     except Exception as e:
>         logging.getLogger("error_logger").error(traceback.format_exc())
>         return None
> 
> def decrypt(pas):
>     try:
>         pas = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(pas)
>         cipher_pass = Fernet(settings.ENCRYPT_KEY)
>         decod_pass = cipher_pass.decrypt(pas).decode("ascii")
>         return decod_pass
>     except Exception as e:
>         logging.getLogger("error_logger").error(traceback.format_exc())
>         return None
2

EDIT

I edited the views.py but now it gives me an error:

*return serializer_class(*args, *kwargs)
TypeError: ‘dict’ object is not callable

> class SamplesViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
> 
>        queryset = Samples.objects.all().order_by('id')
>        serializer = SamplesSerializer(queryset, many=True)
>        for i in range(0, len(serializer.data)):
>            serializer.data[i]['patientid']['patientid'] = decrypt(serializer.data[i]['patientid']['patientid'])
>        response = {'data': serializer.data}
>        serializer_class = response
3

I just want to decrypt the encrypted patientid field in the serializer and show it at datatable on the screen. Here, it is my serlializers.py:

from rest_framework import serializers
from App.models import Samples, Projects, Epi_data

class ProjectsSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Projects
        fields = ['name', 'prefix', 'description']

class Epi_dataSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    epi_data_hospitals = HospitalsSerializer(read_only=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Epi_data
        fields = ['patientid', 'bday', 'age', 'gender', 'born_country', 'foreigner']

class SamplesSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    projects = ProjectsSerializer(read_only=True)
    patientid = Epi_dataSerializer(read_only=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Samples
        fields = ['id', 'p_id_s', 'reception_date', 'hospital_date', 'culture', 'projects', 'patientid']
4

You may want to create a custom field class doing decryption/encryption in the to_representation/to_internal_value (or the inverse depending on where the data is encrypted or not).

See Serializer fields - Django REST framework

Then specifying the field explicitely on your serializer : see Serializers - Django REST framework