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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/api-guide/serializers.md | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md | 6 |
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md index e7e1670b..e8d3c1b5 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Let's start by creating a simple object we can use for example purposes: comment = Comment(email='leila@example.com', content='foo bar') We'll declare a serializer that we can use to serialize and deserialize `Comment` objects. + Declaring a serializer looks very similar to declaring a form: class CommentSerializer(serializers.Serializer): @@ -33,6 +34,13 @@ Declaring a serializer looks very similar to declaring a form: created = serializers.DateTimeField() def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None): + """ + Given a dictionary of deserialized field values, either update + an existing model instance, or create a new model instance. + + Note that if we don't define this method, then deserializing + data will simply return a dictionary of items. + """ if instance is not None: instance.title = attrs['title'] instance.content = attrs['content'] diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index 6709f751..205ee7e0 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -126,7 +126,11 @@ The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is provide a way of serial def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None): """ - Create or update a new snippet instance. + Create or update a new snippet instance, given a dictionary + of deserialized field values. + + Note that if we don't define this method, then deserializing + data will simply return a dictionary of items. """ if instance: # Update existing instance |