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diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py
index 4519ab05..fcc0744a 100644
--- a/rest_framework/serializers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py
@@ -22,7 +22,16 @@ class DictWithMetadata(dict):
"""
A dict-like object, that can have additional properties attached.
"""
- pass
+
+ def __getstate__(self):
+ """ Used by pickle (e.g., caching).
+ Overriden to remove metadata from the dict, since it shouldn't be pickled
+ and may in some instances be unpickleable.
+ """
+ # return an instance of the first dict in MRO that isn't a DictWithMetadata
+ for base in self.__class__.__mro__:
+ if not isinstance(base, DictWithMetadata) and isinstance(base, dict):
+ return base(self)
class SortedDictWithMetadata(SortedDict, DictWithMetadata):
@@ -32,6 +41,7 @@ class SortedDictWithMetadata(SortedDict, DictWithMetadata):
pass
+
def _is_protected_type(obj):
"""
True if the object is a native datatype that does not need to