What is the difference between the create and perform_create methods in Django rest-auth

Question

I'm using the Django rest-auth package. I have a class that extends rest-auth's RegisterView, and which contains two methods, create and perform_create. What is the difference between these two methods?

Answer 1

perform_create is called within the create method to call the serializer for creation once it's known the serialization is valid. Specifically, serializer.save()

Code from the source - when in doubt check it:

class CreateModelMixin(object):
    """
    Create a model instance.
    """
    def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        self.perform_create(serializer)
        headers = self.get_success_headers(serializer.data)
        return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED, headers=headers)

    def perform_create(self, serializer):
        serializer.save()

    def get_success_headers(self, data):
        try:
            return {'Location': str(data[api_settings.URL_FIELD_NAME])}
        except (TypeError, KeyError):
            return {}