Django Rest Framework - How do i actually use a custom date format?

[Federico_Bucciero]

Hi there,
using drf, i developed a simple api for an internal project.
I got asked to change the format of the date field from the ISO format "%Y-%m-%d" to the format '%d.%m.%Y'.
I read and re-read the documentation, jumped from forum and discussion, but i can't find a working solution.
The project structure is:
project/

api/

init.py
formats/

init.py
it/

init.py
formats.py

migrations/
admin.py
apps.py
...

backend/

init.py
asgi.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py

in project/backend/settings.py i have set
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'it'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = ['api.formats',]

and in project/api/formats/it/formats.py i have set
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = [

'%d/%m/%y',
'%d/%m/%Y',
'%d.%m.%Y',
'%d.%m.%y',
'%Y-%m-%d',
# etc

]

but still doesn't work, and fails my request, asking for a date in format '%Y-%m-%d'
The documentation doesn't help really much undestanding how to properly customize the format, as this "The locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead." tries to imply that customization is impossible.

Django version: 5.1.4
djangorestframework version: 3.15.2

[Sarah Boyce]

Hello, this report seems better suited to be a support request for DRF. The best place to get answers to your issue is using any of the user support channels from ​this link.

Since the goal of this issue tracker is to track issues about Django itself, I'll be closing this ticket as invalid following the ​ticket triaging process. Thank you!