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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index 6709f751..ed54a876 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 @@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ We can also serialize querysets instead of model instances. To do so we simply ## Using ModelSerializers -Our `SnippetSerializer` class is replicating a lot of information that's also contained in the `Snippet` model. It would be nice if we could keep out code a bit more concise. +Our `SnippetSerializer` class is replicating a lot of information that's also contained in the `Snippet` model. It would be nice if we could keep our code a bit more concise. In the same way that Django provides both `Form` classes and `ModelForm` classes, REST framework includes both `Serializer` classes, and `ModelSerializer` classes. |