How to post request for multiple strings in django rest framework?

Question

I am writing a viewsets that takes in an array of string values from the user and validates a table based on the post request. I dont know how to take in an array in request.POST from the user and use the rest APIs in the Postman. As for instance:

class newView(viewsets.ModelViewset):
    authentication_classes = (BasicAuthentication)
    serializer_class = NewSerializer

    def create(self,request,*args,**kwargs):
        stringslist = ???
        # request.POST.????
        # Work with stringslist

Also, how to check this in Postman?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 12 '19 at 12:28

class StringListField(serializers.ListField):
    child = serializers.CharField()

class NewSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    string_list = StringListField()

Define String list field and Add string list in your serializer

    def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        string_list = serializer.validated_data.get('string_list', [])
        # you can get string list here
        self.perform_create(serializer)
        headers = self.get_success_headers(serializer.data)
        return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED, 
        headers=headers)

How to post request for multiple strings in django rest framework?

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