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diff --git a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md index b28670cf..aa0e0c7e 100644 --- a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md +++ b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md @@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ The corresponding code would now look like this: logging.info('Creating ticket "%s"' % name) serializer.save(user=request.user) # Include the user when saving. +#### Use `rest_framework.exceptions.ValidationFailed`. + +Django's `ValidationError` class is intended for use with HTML forms and it's API makes its use slightly awkward with nested validation errors as can occur in serializers. + +We now include a simpler `ValidationFailed` exception class in REST framework that you should use when raising validation failures. + #### Change to `validate_<field_name>`. The `validate_<field_name>` method hooks that can be attached to serializer classes change their signature slightly and return type. Previously these would take a dictionary of all incoming data, and a key representing the field name, and would return a dictionary including the validated data for that field: |