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I have made an api for submitting a contact form in my application.
Whenever the form gets submitted i want it to send that details to myself through email.
Here is my code what i am using:

models.py

class Contact(models.Model):

    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    email = models.EmailField(max_length=254)

    phone = models.CharField(max_length=20)

    message = models.TextField()



    def __str__(self):

        return self.name



    class Meta:

        db_table = 'contact'

views.py

from rest_framework.generics import (

    CreateAPIView,

)

from .serializers import (

    ContactCreateSerializer

)

class ContactCreateApiView(CreateAPIView):

    queryset = Contact.objects.all()

    serializer_class = ContactCreateSerializer

serializers.py

class ContactCreateSerializer(ModelSerializer):

class Meta:

    model = Contact

    fields = [

        'name',

        'email',

        'phone',

        'message',

    ]



def send_email(self):

    name = self.cleaned_data.get('name')

    from_email = self.cleaned_data.get('email')

    phone = self.cleaned_data.get('phone')

    subject = 'Contact Form Info from App'

    message = self.cleaned_data.get('message')

    to_email = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER



    context = {

        'name': name,

        'email': from_email,

        'phone': phone,

        'message': message,

    }

    plaintext = get_template('emails/contact_form_email.txt')

    htmly = get_template('emails/contact_form_email.html')

    text_content = plaintext.render(context)

    html_content = htmly.render(context)



    message = EmailMultiAlternatives(

        subject=subject, 

        body=text_content, 

        from_email=from_email, 

        to=[to_email],

        cc=,

        bcc=    

    )

    message.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")

    message.send()



def save(self, commit=True):

    instance = super().save(commit)

    self.send_email()  # there you send the email when then model is saved in db

    return instance

I tried this but it gives me error

save() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

What should i do?

There are many ways to do that. One of them is to override the create method of the ModelSerializer:

from django.core.mail import send_mail





class ContactCreateSerializer(ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:

        model = ContactForm

        fields = [

            'name',

            'email',

            'phone',

            'message',

        ]



     def create(self, validate_data):

        instance = super(ContactCreateSerializer, self).create(validate_data)

        send_mail(

            'Instance {} has been created'.format(instance.pk),

            'Here is the message. DATA: {}'.format(validate_data),

            'from@example.com',

            ['to@example.com'],

            fail_silently=False,

        )

        return instance

For more details on sending email, please check this documentation.

FYI: Please change your Model Name from ContactForm to Contact. Because its a model, not a form. And to be honest. You don't need to store contact information. You can do it like this:

class ContactSerailizer(Serializer):

   name = serializers.CharField()

   email = serializers.EmailField()

   # and so on



Class ContactView(APIView):

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

         serailizer = ContactSerailizer(request.data)

         if serailizer.is_valid():

             data = serailizer.validated_data

             email = validated_data.get('email')

             name = validated_data.get('name')

             send_mail(

                'Sent email from {}'.format(name),

                'Here is the message. {}'.format(validate_data.get('message')),

                email,

                ['to@example.com'],

                fail_silently=False,

            )

            return Response({"success": "Sent"})

         return Response({'success': "Failed"}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)