how to access serialized data in django rest framework

Question

I have this data in my serializer

EditScheduleSerializerByDate(data={'time1': '09:00:00', 't1course1': 'Machine Learning'}, initial={'ss': <QuerySet [<Schedule: 2021-02-27 13:00:00 Machine Learning >, <Schedule: 2021-02-27 13:00:00 Deep Learning >, <Schedule: 2021-02-27 14:00:00 Deep Learning >]>})

I am unable to access data using serializer.data but I am able to access serializer.initial

It is giving empty list in serializer.data

Answer 1

You should call .is_valid() method before accessing serializer.data :

if serializer.is_valid():
    # Now you can get serializer.data

Or you can call initial_data to access data before calling is_valid() method:

print(serializer.initial_data)