Writing UserSerializer and UserViewset

Create a Django REST Framework serializer for conversion between Django data structures and Python objects, and implement a viewset for user CRUD operations with proper validation and permissions.

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A serializer allows us to convert complex Django complex data structures such as QuerySet or model instances into Python native objects that can be easily converted to JSON or XML format. However, a serializer also serializes JSON or XML to native Python. Django Rest Framework (DRF) provides a serializers package we can use to write serializers and validations when API calls are made to an endpoint using this serializer.

Note: Please look at the appendix to see how to install the djangorestframework package. We have also added django-filter for data filtering support.

Let’s add rest_framework to the INSTALLED_APPS setting:

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