CreateModelMixin sends everything back to the user

[Kai Schlamp]

Hello together.

I just found out that the "create" method of "CreateModelMixin" sends everything back to the client after the instance was created. Why is this the default? It seems to me that it just bloats the network traffic, especially if the user submitted a lot of data. What do you recommend to turn this off? Overwrite the "create" method or the "data" method of the serializer?

Best regards,

Kai

[Tom Christie]

Hi Kai,

  Returning the object is conventional.  Note that there might also be read-only attributes on the object, that the client isn't able to determine until after the object has been returned to it.

  If you wanted to override this then yes, override `.create`, either in a new base class that you use throughout, or by explicitly adding it to each view, eg. perhaps using a mixin class.

Cheers,

  Tom

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