Searching is not working in django rest_framework

Searching is not working in the django rest framework. searching for the approved status of leave applied by a particular employee. But the filtering/ searching/ sorting is properly working in the admin user. but not in the employee side.

Views.py

class LeaveList(APIView):

    authentication_classes = [SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication, TokenAuthentication]
    permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated]  

    filter_backends = [DjangoFilterBackend,SearchFilter,OrderingFilter]
    ordering_fields = ['apply_date','number_of_days','status']
    search_fields = ['status']
    filter_fields = ['status']

    def get(self, request, format=None):
        employee = request.user

        filter_backends = [DjangoFilterBackend,SearchFilter,OrderingFilter]
        search_fields = ['status']

        queryset = LeaveApplicationModel.objects.filter(employee_id=employee.id)
        serializer_class = LeaveApplicationsListSerializer(queryset, many=True)

        return Response(data=serializer_class.data)

Serializers.py

class LeaveApplicationsListSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
  
    class Meta:
        model = LeaveApplicationModel
        exclude = ['id', 'employee']

postman request
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expecting

You're not using the search_filters anywhere. GenericAPIView or any class that subclasses it, e.g. ListAPIView, will use it automatically. It's in the docs.

If I were you, I'd rather subclass ListAPIView and set the relevant available attributes correctly. You can overwrite get_queryset to filter for the employee:

class LeaveList(ListAPIView):
    authentication_classes = [SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication, TokenAuthentication]
    permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated]  
    filter_backends = [DjangoFilterBackend,SearchFilter,OrderingFilter]
    ordering_fields = ['apply_date','number_of_days','status']
    search_fields = ['status']
    filter_fields = ['status']
    serializer_class = LeaveApplicationsListSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        employee = self.request.user

        return LeaveApplicationModel.objects.filter(employee_id=employee.id)