Added a separate parse_data method to JSONParser (#1083)

Co-authored-by: Alex Seidmann <alex@leanpnt.de>
Co-authored-by: Oliver Sauder <os@esite.ch>

Author: 3 people

AUTHORS

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Adam Wróbel <https://adamwrobel.com>
 Adam Ziolkowski <adam@adsized.com>
 Alan Crosswell <alan@columbia.edu>
+Alex Seidmann <alex@leanpnt.de>
 Anton Shutik <shutikanton@gmail.com>
 Ashley Loewen <github@ashleycodes.tech>
 Asif Saif Uddin <auvipy@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ any parts of the framework not mentioned in the documentation should generally b
 ### Added
 
 * Added support for Django 4.1.
+* Expanded JSONParser API with `parse_data` method
 
 ### Removed
 

rest_framework_json_api/parsers.py

@@ -70,14 +70,11 @@ def parse_metadata(result):
         else:
             return {}
 
-    def parse(self, stream, media_type=None, parser_context=None):
+    def parse_data(self, result, parser_context):
         """
-        Parses the incoming bytestream as JSON and returns the resulting data
+        Formats the output of calling JSONParser to match the JSON:API specification
+        and returns the result.
         """
-        result = super().parse(
-            stream, media_type=media_type, parser_context=parser_context
-        )
-
         if not isinstance(result, dict) or "data" not in result:
             raise ParseError("Received document does not contain primary data")
 
@@ -166,3 +163,13 @@ def parse(self, stream, media_type=None, parser_context=None):
         parsed_data.update(self.parse_relationships(data))
         parsed_data.update(self.parse_metadata(result))
         return parsed_data
+
+    def parse(self, stream, media_type=None, parser_context=None):
+        """
+        Parses the incoming bytestream as JSON and returns the resulting data
+        """
+        result = super().parse(
+            stream, media_type=media_type, parser_context=parser_context
+        )
+
+        return self.parse_data(result, parser_context)