Add bulk operation support

[zivSher]

Hi guys,
I'm trying to post an array of objects. (it's basically a list of dictionaries).
I'm getting
'if data.get('type') != resource_name and request.method in ('PUT', 'POST', 'PATCH'):
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get''

from the parsers.py.
Seems like it doesn't know to handle a case where the data is a list.
Is that functionality missing or am I doing something wrong?

I'm using 'many=true' in the serializer.

This is the data I'm sending:
{
"data": [
{
"type": "admin_mappings",
"attributes": {
"oxygen_id": "2222",
"type": "1",
"my_role": "manager"
},
"relationships": {
"container": {
"data": {
"type": "containers",
"id": "5d0554d1-22b3-441c-89f5-d6d5cdd74451"
}
}
}
},
{
"type": "admin_mappings",
"attributes": {
"oxygen_id": "3333",
"type": "1",
"my_role": "manager"
},
"relationships": {
"container": {
"data": {
"type": "containers",
"id": "5d0554d1-22b3-441c-89f5-d6d5cdd74451"
}
}
}
}]
}

Thanks!

[sliverc]

What you suggest is adding bulk support for json api. This is actually not part of json api standard but might still be valid to add. Best have a look at #393 (comment) for more details.

[donaldwasserman]

So this is actually something being worked on right now: json-api/json-api#1254

I'd actually be interested in working on this, but it's not to a point yet where I've had enough time to see where it's at (the PR to the spec is still open, but I think it's mostly complete)

[hb9hnt]

Could someone tell me what that state of this issue is and what might be the most promising path from here on? As I see it this is where we stand:

• The discussed sideposting draft did not make it into JSON-API 1.1RC and seems pretty abandoned.

• There is a chance that operations will be included in a 1.2RC some months from now, but there is no guarantee for this to actually happen nor can it be considered a stable specification at this point.

• There is no replacement for the bulk creation extension in the new extension model and there might never be since the above mentioned operations are worked on.

Are we pretty much stuck on this or is there a promising approach at this moment?

[sliverc]

As Django JSON API our goal is to implement the JSON API specification so I guess this question is better to be answered there.

What you can do is implement the old bulk creation extensions as described here #393 (comment) in your code base. But this will be custom and client code will need to be custom as well.

[sliverc]

Closing this issue as this is better discussed in json api specification. So if you feel like this feature is needed join the discussion there as outlined in #367 (comment) or use the workaround #393 (comment)