what is serializer in django rest framework code example

Example 1: drf serializer

serializer = CommentSerializer(data={'email': 'foobar', 'content': 'baz'})
serializer.is_valid()
# False
serializer.errors
# {'email': ['Enter a valid e-mail address.'], 'created': ['This field is required.']}

Example 2: how to add methods to manuplate the model in serializers

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UnivStudent(models.Model):
    """
    A class based model for storing the records of a university student
    Note: A OneToOne relation is established for each student with User model.
    """
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    subject_major = models.CharField(name="subject_major", max_length=60)