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Diffstat (limited to 'rest_framework/serializers.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | rest_framework/serializers.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py index a4140c0f..143d205d 100644 --- a/rest_framework/serializers.py +++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ from rest_framework.validators import ( ) import copy import inspect +import sys import warnings # Note: We do the following so that users of the framework can use this style: @@ -653,7 +654,18 @@ class ModelSerializer(Serializer): if relation_info.to_many and (field_name in validated_attrs): many_to_many[field_name] = validated_attrs.pop(field_name) - instance = ModelClass.objects.create(**validated_attrs) + try: + instance = ModelClass.objects.create(**validated_attrs) + except TypeError as exc: + msg = ( + 'The mentioned argument might be a field on the serializer ' + 'that is not part of the model. You need to override the ' + 'create() method in your ModelSerializer subclass to support ' + 'this.') + six.reraise( + type(exc), + type(exc)(str(exc) + '. ' + msg), + sys.exc_info()[2]) # Save many-to-many relationships after the instance is created. if many_to_many: |