DRF's not calling post() method when receiving POST request

Question

I have a viewset like this:

class MyViewSet(CreateAPIView, RetrieveModelMixin, ListModelMixin, GenericViewSet):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    serializer_class = MySerializer

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

class MySerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel
        fields = ['id', 'field1', 'field2'] #only field1 is required in the model

The GET requests for list, and retrieve works perfectly. When I make a POST request, sending the field1 I get a status 201 and a new record is added to the database, so it works too .

But my method MyViewSet.post() that should overwrite the same one from generics.CreateAPIView never gets called.

Not only that, but I've tried to add the pdb.set_trace() , literally inside the generics.CreateAPIView.post() and in the CreateModelMixin.create() functions and neither stopped once I made the POST request.

So something else is handling this POST request and inserting into the DB, I just don't know what. And how can I overwrite it, so I can customize what should be done with a post request?

PS.: Also, I don't think it's a routing problem, my urls.py :

from rest_framework import routers
from myapp.views import MyViewSet, AnotherViewSet

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'route_one', MyViewSet)
router.register(r'route_two', AnotherViewSet)

Answer 1

I think you need to use the exact class in order to use POST api.

class MyView(CreateModelMixin, ListModelMixin, generics.GenericAPIView):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    serializer_class = MySerializer

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.create(request, *args, **kwargs)

In urls.py

from django.urls import path
from .views import MyView

urlpatterns = [
    path('route_one', MyView.as_view(), name="my_view_detail")   
]