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authorTom Christie2013-03-08 21:20:52 +0000
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When deserializing data, you always need to call `is_valid()` before attempting to access the deserialized object. If any validation errors occur, the `.errors` and `.non_field_errors` properties will contain the resulting error messages.
+When deserialising a list of items, errors will be returned as a list of tuples. The first item in an error tuple will be the index of the item with the error in the original data; The second item in the tuple will be a dict with the individual errors for that item.
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### Field-level validation
You can specify custom field-level validation by adding `.validate_<fieldname>` methods to your `Serializer` subclass. These are analagous to `.clean_<fieldname>` methods on Django forms, but accept slightly different arguments.