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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index db5b9ea7..52c75d2c 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -110,21 +110,21 @@ The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of ser style = serializers.ChoiceField(choices=STYLE_CHOICES, default='friendly') - def create(self, validated_attrs): + def create(self, validated_data): """ Create and return a new `Snippet` instance, given the validated data. """ - return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_attrs) + return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_data) - def update(self, instance, validated_attrs): + def update(self, instance, validated_data): """ Update and return an existing `Snippet` instance, given the validated data. """ - instance.title = validated_attrs.get('title', instance.title) - instance.code = validated_attrs.get('code', instance.code) - instance.linenos = validated_attrs.get('linenos', instance.linenos) - instance.language = validated_attrs.get('language', instance.language) - instance.style = validated_attrs.get('style', instance.style) + instance.title = validated_data.get('title', instance.title) + instance.code = validated_data.get('code', instance.code) + instance.linenos = validated_data.get('linenos', instance.linenos) + instance.language = validated_data.get('language', instance.language) + instance.style = validated_data.get('style', instance.style) instance.save() return instance @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ A serializer class is very similar to a Django `Form` class, and includes simila The field flags can also control how the serializer should be displayed in certain circumstances, such as when rendering to HTML. The `style={'type': 'textarea'}` flag above is equivelent to using `widget=widgets.Textarea` on a Django `Form` class. This is particularly useful for controlling how the browsable API should be displayed, as we'll see later in the tutorial. -We can actually also save ourselves some time by using the `ModelSerializer` class, as we'll see later, but for now we'll keep our serializer definition explicit. +We can actually also save ourselves some time by using the `ModelSerializer` class, as we'll see later, but for now we'll keep our serializer definition explicit. ## Working with Serializers @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and edit the `SnippetSerializer` model = Snippet fields = ('id', 'title', 'code', 'linenos', 'language', 'style') -Once nice property that serializers have is that you can inspect all the fields an serializer instance, by printing it's representation. Open the Django shell with `python manange.py shell`, then try the following: +One nice property that serializers have is that you can inspect all the fields in a serializer instance, by printing it's representation. Open the Django shell with `python manange.py shell`, then try the following: >>> from snippets.serializers import SnippetSerializer >>> serializer = SnippetSerializer() @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Once nice property that serializers have is that you can inspect all the fields language = ChoiceField(choices=[('Clipper', 'FoxPro'), ('Cucumber', 'Gherkin'), ('RobotFramework', 'RobotFramework'), ('abap', 'ABAP'), ('ada', 'Ada')... style = ChoiceField(choices=[('autumn', 'autumn'), ('borland', 'borland'), ('bw', 'bw'), ('colorful', 'colorful')... -It's important to remember that `ModelSerializer` classes don't do anything particularly magically, they are simply a shortcut to creating a serializer class with: +It's important to remember that `ModelSerializer` classes don't do anything particularly magical, they are simply a shortcut for creating serializer classes: * An automatically determined set of fields. * Simple default implementations for the `create()` and `update()` methods. |