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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md index bbc8d019..d9fd4643 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/serializers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/serializers.md @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ We'll declare a serializer that we can use to serialize and deserialize `Comment Declaring a serializer looks very similar to declaring a form: + from rest_framework import serializers + class CommentSerializer(serializers.Serializer): email = serializers.EmailField() content = serializers.CharField(max_length=200) @@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ We can now use `CommentSerializer` to serialize a comment, or list of comments. At this point we've translated the model instance into Python native datatypes. To finalise the serialization process we render the data into `json`. + from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer + json = JSONRenderer().render(serializer.data) json # '{"email": "leila@example.com", "content": "foo bar", "created": "2012-08-22T16:20:09.822"}' @@ -67,6 +71,9 @@ At this point we've translated the model instance into Python native datatypes. Deserialization is similar. First we parse a stream into Python native datatypes... + from StringIO import StringIO + from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser + stream = StringIO(json) data = JSONParser().parse(stream) |