This contex generaly doesn't exist

[kripnerl]

This line in BulkSerializerMixin

django-rest-framework-bulk/rest_framework_bulk/drf3/serializers.py

Line 19 in 2a59d14

request_method = getattr(getattr(self.context.get('view'), 'request'), 'method', '')

can raise AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'request' if the is_valid() method is run without the client. For example during tests when I wanted to utilize the Serializer with BulkSerializerMixin.