Class PKOnlyObject

rest_framework/relations.py:68–79

This is a mock object, used for when we only need the pk of the object instance, but still want to return an object with a .pk attribute, in order to keep the same interface as a regular model instance.

class PKOnlyObject:
    """
    This is a mock object, used for when we only need the pk of the object
    instance, but still want to return an object with a .pk attribute,
    in order to keep the same interface as a regular model instance.
    """

    def __init__(self, pk):
        self.pk = pk

    def __str__(self):
        return "%s" % self.pk


# We assume that 'validators' are intended for the child serializer,