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-rwxr-xr-xdocs/api-guide/authentication.md5
-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/exceptions.md12
-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/filtering.md7
-rw-r--r--docs/index.md2
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md6
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/project-management.md5
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/release-notes.md41
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md2
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md2
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md2
-rw-r--r--docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md2
11 files changed, 71 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
index bb731817..ba114513 100755
--- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The value of `request.user` and `request.auth` for unauthenticated requests can
## Setting the authentication scheme
-The default authentication schemes may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION` setting. For example.
+The default authentication schemes may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES` setting. For example.
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ To use the `TokenAuthentication` scheme you'll need to [configure the authentica
'rest_framework.authtoken'
)
-
---
**Note:** Make sure to run `manage.py syncdb` after changing your settings. The `rest_framework.authtoken` app provides both Django (from v1.7) and South database migrations. See [Schema migrations](#schema-migrations) below.
@@ -249,8 +248,6 @@ Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403
If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
----
-
# Custom authentication
To implement a custom authentication scheme, subclass `BaseAuthentication` and override the `.authenticate(self, request)` method. The method should return a two-tuple of `(user, auth)` if authentication succeeds, or `None` otherwise.
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/exceptions.md b/docs/api-guide/exceptions.md
index 50bd14dd..56811ec3 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/exceptions.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/exceptions.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The handled exceptions are:
In each case, REST framework will return a response with an appropriate status code and content-type. The body of the response will include any additional details regarding the nature of the error.
-By default all error responses will include a key `detail` in the body of the response, but other keys may also be included.
+Most error responses will include a key `detail` in the body of the response.
For example, the following request:
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ Might receive an error response indicating that the `DELETE` method is not allow
{"detail": "Method 'DELETE' not allowed."}
+Validation errors are handled slightly differently, and will include the field names as the keys in the response. If the validation error was not specific to a particular field then it will use the "non_field_errors" key, or whatever string value has been set for the `NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY` setting.
+
+Any example validation error might look like this:
+
+ HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
+ Content-Type: application/json
+ Content-Length: 94
+
+ {"amount": ["A valid integer is required."], "description": ["This field may not be blank."]}
+
## Custom exception handling
You can implement custom exception handling by creating a handler function that converts exceptions raised in your API views into response objects. This allows you to control the style of error responses used by your API.
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
index 83977048..e00560c7 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ Typically you'd instead control this by setting `order_by` on the initial querys
queryset = User.objects.all()
serializer_class = UserSerializer
filter_backends = (filters.OrderingFilter,)
+ ordering_fields = ('username', 'email')
ordering = ('username',)
The `ordering` attribute may be either a string or a list/tuple of strings.
@@ -390,9 +391,9 @@ We could achieve the same behavior by overriding `get_queryset()` on the views,
The following third party packages provide additional filter implementations.
-## Django REST framework chain
+## Django REST framework filters package
-The [django-rest-framework-chain package][django-rest-framework-chain] works together with the `DjangoFilterBackend` class, and allows you to easily create filters across relationships, or create multiple filter lookup types for a given field.
+The [django-rest-framework-filters package][django-rest-framework-filters] works together with the `DjangoFilterBackend` class, and allows you to easily create filters across relationships, or create multiple filter lookup types for a given field.
[cite]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#retrieving-specific-objects-with-filters
[django-filter]: https://github.com/alex/django-filter
@@ -402,4 +403,4 @@ The [django-rest-framework-chain package][django-rest-framework-chain] works tog
[view-permissions-blogpost]: http://blog.nyaruka.com/adding-a-view-permission-to-django-models
[nullbooleanselect]: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/widgets.py
[search-django-admin]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.search_fields
-[django-rest-framework-chain]: https://github.com/philipn/django-rest-framework-chain
+[django-rest-framework-filters]: https://github.com/philipn/django-rest-framework-filters
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 16376985..efd99a4e 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Some reasons you might want to use REST framework:
REST framework requires the following:
* Python (2.6.5+, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)
-* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.5+, 1.6, 1.7)
+* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.6+, 1.6.3+, 1.7)
The following packages are optional:
diff --git a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
index 68d24782..5dbc5600 100644
--- a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
+++ b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ The resulting API changes are further detailed below.
#### The `.create()` and `.update()` methods.
-The `.restore_object()` method is now replaced with two separate methods, `.create()` and `.update()`.
-
-These methods also replace the optional `.save_object()` method, which no longer exists.
+The `.restore_object()` method is now removed, and we instead have two separate methods, `.create()` and `.update()`. These methods work slightly different to the previous `.restore_object()`.
When using the `.create()` and `.update()` methods you should both create *and save* the object instance. This is in contrast to the previous `.restore_object()` behavior that would instantiate the object but not save it.
+These methods also replace the optional `.save_object()` method, which no longer exists.
+
The following example from the tutorial previously used `restore_object()` to handle both creating and updating object instances.
def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None):
diff --git a/docs/topics/project-management.md b/docs/topics/project-management.md
index 7f705196..2a54fb94 100644
--- a/docs/topics/project-management.md
+++ b/docs/topics/project-management.md
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serv
#### New members.
If you wish to be considered for this or a future date, please comment against this or subsequent issues.
+
+ To modify this process for future maintenance cycles make a pull request to the [project management](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/project-management/) documentation.
#### Responsibilities of team members
@@ -108,6 +110,8 @@ The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serv
- [ ] Make a release announcement on the [discussion group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-rest-framework).
- [ ] Make a release announcement on twitter.
- [ ] Close the milestone on GitHub.
+
+ To modify this process for future releases make a pull request to the [project management](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/project-management/) documentation.
When pushing the release to PyPI ensure that your environment has been installed from our development `requirement.txt`, so that documentation and PyPI installs are consistently being built against a pinned set of packages.
@@ -176,6 +180,7 @@ The following issues still need to be addressed:
* Ensure `@jamie` has back-up access to the `django-rest-framework.org` domain setup and admin.
* Document ownership of the [live example][sandbox] API.
* Document ownership of the [mailing list][mailing-list] and IRC channel.
+* Document ownership and management of the security mailing list.
[bus-factor]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
[un-triaged]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=is%3Aopen+no%3Alabel
diff --git a/docs/topics/release-notes.md b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
index b9216e36..c49dd62c 100644
--- a/docs/topics/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
@@ -40,6 +40,27 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`:
## 3.0.x series
+
+### 3.0.3
+
+**Date**: [8th January 2015][3.0.3-milestone].
+
+* Fix `MinValueValidator` on `models.DateField`. ([#2369][gh2369])
+* Fix serializer missing context when pagination is used. ([#2355][gh2355])
+* Namespaced router URLs are now supported by the `DefaultRouter`. ([#2351][gh2351])
+* `required=False` allows omission of value for output. ([#2342][gh2342])
+* Use textarea input for `models.TextField`. ([#2340][gh2340])
+* Use custom `ListSerializer` for pagination if required. ([#2331][gh2331], [#2327][gh2327])
+* Better behavior with null and '' for blank HTML fields. ([#2330][gh2330])
+* Ensure fields in `exclude` are model fields. ([#2319][gh2319])
+* Fix `IntegerField` and `max_length` argument incompatibility. ([#2317][gh2317])
+* Fix the YAML encoder for 3.0 serializers. ([#2315][gh2315], [#2283][gh2283])
+* Fix the behavior of empty HTML fields. ([#2311][gh2311], [#1101][gh1101])
+* Fix Metaclass attribute depth ignoring fields attribute. ([#2287][gh2287])
+* Fix `format_suffix_patterns` to work with Django's `i18n_patterns`. ([#2278][gh2278])
+* Ability to customize router URLs for custom actions, using `url_path`. ([#2010][gh2010])
+* Don't install Django REST Framework as egg. ([#2386][gh2386])
+
### 3.0.2
**Date**: [17th December 2014][3.0.2-milestone].
@@ -680,6 +701,7 @@ For older release notes, [please see the GitHub repo](old-release-notes).
[3.0.1-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.1+Release%22
[3.0.2-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.2+Release%22
+[3.0.3-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.3+Release%22
<!-- 3.0.1 -->
[gh2013]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2013
@@ -729,3 +751,22 @@ For older release notes, [please see the GitHub repo](old-release-notes).
[gh2290]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2290
[gh2291]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2291
[gh2294]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2294
+<!-- 3.0.3 -->
+[gh1101]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/1101
+[gh2010]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2010
+[gh2278]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2278
+[gh2283]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2283
+[gh2287]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2287
+[gh2311]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2311
+[gh2315]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2315
+[gh2317]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2317
+[gh2319]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2319
+[gh2327]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2327
+[gh2330]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2330
+[gh2331]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2331
+[gh2340]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2340
+[gh2342]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2342
+[gh2351]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2351
+[gh2355]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2355
+[gh2369]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2369
+[gh2386]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2386
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 60a3d989..41ff4d07 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Our `SnippetSerializer` class is replicating a lot of information that's also co
In the same way that Django provides both `Form` classes and `ModelForm` classes, REST framework includes both `Serializer` classes, and `ModelSerializer` classes.
Let's look at refactoring our serializer using the `ModelSerializer` class.
-Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and edit the `SnippetSerializer` class.
+Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and replace the `SnippetSerializer` class with the following.
class SnippetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
index 0a9ea3f1..abf82e49 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ That's looking good. Again, it's still pretty similar to the function based vie
We'll also need to refactor our `urls.py` slightly now we're using class based views.
- from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+ from django.conf.urls import url
from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
from snippets import views
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
index 592c77e8..887d1e56 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ In the snippets app, create a new file, `permissions.py`
# Write permissions are only allowed to the owner of the snippet.
return obj.owner == request.user
-Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetDetail` class:
+Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetDetail` view class:
permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
IsOwnerOrReadOnly,)
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
index c21efd7f..2841f03e 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ If we're going to have a hyperlinked API, we need to make sure we name our URL p
After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `snippets/urls.py` file should look something like this:
+ from django.conf.urls import url, include
+
# API endpoints
urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns([
url(r'^$', views.api_root),