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Create timestamp field on getting a POST request when using Django-tastypie

I have a timestamp field in one of my Django models (let's say Comment). I have been using Django-tastypie for REST API. Now when a POST request is submitted to /api/v1/comments/, a new comment object is created but how do I populated the timestamp field in this comment. I want this timestamp to be that when the server receives the POST request.

So, how do I intercept this POST request and put this timestamp field?

Solution

  • Django has the auto_now and auto_now_add feature that you can use to automatically fill in the time on a DateTime Field. Such as:

    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#datefield