Django Rest-Framework During Validation, Check the Request Method Type

I am working on API Validation Errors to be called. I have to make sure 2 dates don’t overlap when making new “POST” calls, which is working fine. I am doing a model.objects.Filter() query and if anything gets returned, I return a validation error. However, I want to return this error only during POST requests. I have tried

if request.method == "POST":

do something

but I get errors under the “request” word saying “request” is not defined. is there another way to check the Method Type during validation? I am doing this in my serializer. Thanks!

Answer

You can pass request context to serializer from your view:

serializer = SomeSerializer(context={'request':request}, data=request.data)

In your serializer, you can access the request method as:

self.context['request'].method