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Django REST 3.8.2 CurrentUserDefault doesn't work #6031

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@damonsu

When i tried to create a new Post, i get always the following error:
Exception Value: | (1048, "Column 'user_id' cannot be null")

But i get no error before i updated to Django Rest 3.8.2. It seems like that the function CurrentUserDefault doesn't work.

My Code:

class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
user = UserSerializer(
    many = False,
    read_only = True,
    default=serializers.CurrentUserDefault()
)

class Meta:
    model = Post
    fields = ('id', 'user', 'post_date')

def create(self, validated_data):
    return Post.objects.create(**validated_data)

**Solution based on the reply of @blueyed **

def create(self, validated_data):
     if 'user' not in validated_data:
         validated_data['user'] = self.context['request'].user
     return Post.objects.create(**validated_data)

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