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authorSusan Dreher2015-01-27 16:18:51 -0500
committerSusan Dreher2015-01-27 16:18:51 -0500
commit8c3f82fb18a58b8e0983612ef3cc35b3c3950b66 (patch)
treef20362c16d420200a983cadf88e99a24de1b775c /rest_framework
parentfc70c0862ff3e6183b79adc4675a63874261ddf0 (diff)
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:bug: ManyRelatedField get_value clearing field on partial update
A PATCH to a serializer's non-related CharField was clearing an ancillary StringRelatedField(many=True) field. The issue appears to be in the ManyRelatedField's get_value method, which was returning a [] instead of empty when the request data was a MultiDict. This fix mirrors code in fields.py, class Field, get_value, Ln. 272, which explicitly returns empty on a partial update. Tests added to demonstrate the issue.
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-rw-r--r--rest_framework/relations.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/relations.py b/rest_framework/relations.py
index aa0c2def..13793f37 100644
--- a/rest_framework/relations.py
+++ b/rest_framework/relations.py
@@ -338,7 +338,12 @@ class ManyRelatedField(Field):
# We override the default field access in order to support
# lists in HTML forms.
if html.is_html_input(dictionary):
+ # Don't return [] if the update is partial
+ if self.field_name not in dictionary:
+ if getattr(self.root, 'partial', False):
+ return empty
return dictionary.getlist(self.field_name)
+
return dictionary.get(self.field_name, empty)
def to_internal_value(self, data):