IntegrityError Restore Framework Creating Excerpts

I am working my way through the Django Rest Framework tutorial and I am stuck on Part 4.

After adding permissions to the views, it says to create a couple of snippets. I logged in through the browsable API and tried to post a snippet like this:

{
"title": "snippet",
"code": "print 123"
}

When I do I get:

IntegrityError at /snippets/

NOT NULL constraint failed: snippets_snippet.owner_id

Anyone know what's going on here?

Traceback:
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  111.                     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py" in wrapped_view
  57.         return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in view
  69.             return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py" in dispatch
  403.             response = self.handle_exception(exc)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py" in dispatch
  400.             response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/web/resttutorial/snippets/views.py" in post
  23.             serializer.save()
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py" in save
  599.             self.save_object(self.object, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py" in save_object
  1041.         obj.save(**kwargs)
File "/home/grez/web/resttutorial/snippets/models.py" in save
  36.         super(Snippet, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py" in save
  591.                        force_update=force_update, update_fields=update_fields)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py" in save_base
  619.             updated = self._save_table(raw, cls, force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py" in _save_table
  700.             result = self._do_insert(cls._base_manager, using, fields, update_pk, raw)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py" in _do_insert
  733.                                using=using, raw=raw)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py" in manager_method
  92.                 return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py" in _insert
  921.         return query.get_compiler(using=using).execute_sql(return_id)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py" in execute_sql
  920.                 cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py" in execute
  81.             return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py" in execute
  65.                 return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/utils.py" in __exit__
  94.                 six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/six.py" in reraise
  549.             raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py" in execute
  65.                 return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/home/grez/restenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py" in execute
  485.         return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)

Exception Type: IntegrityError at /snippets/
Exception Value: NOT NULL constraint failed: snippets_snippet.owner_id

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I was running through this tutorial tonight and hit the same error. It seems the tutorial is a version or so behind the actual framework maybe? Regardless, I was able to get snippets to save after a bit of research.

Where the tutorial says to do this:

def perform_create(self, serializer):
    serializer.save(owner=self.request.user)

I switched to this:

def pre_save(self, snip):
    snip.owner = self.request.user

It seems that that perform_create method no longer exists or is called, so the owner never gets set, thus the error we saw. I'm not sure if what I did is the correct way of solving the problem, but it seems to work!

Here's a link to the docs where I figured the above out: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views/#genericapiview