User account delete in django's rest

Question

I want create view which can deactivation user's account. when i create view and send delete request i have error - > "detail": "You do not have permission to perform this action.". i have authenticated permissionn but i am login in my account. i also use APIview

this is code ->

class DeleteAccount(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    serializer_class = UserSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]


    def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        user=self.request.user
        user.delete()

        return Response({"result":"user delete"})

Answer 1

Since you seem to be using a purely view-based approach, APIView might do the trick instead of the generic class. Additionally, setting the serializer class isn't necessary as well.

from rest_framework.views import APIView

class DeleteAccount(APIView):
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]

    def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        user=self.request.user
        user.delete()

        return Response({"result":"user delete"})

Additionally as a general practice, it's better/safer to reserve user deletion capabilities only for admin/staff users.