From b6ca7248ebcf95a95e1911aa0b130f653b8bf690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:32:12 +0000
Subject: required=False allows omission of value for output. Closes #2342

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 docs/api-guide/fields.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/api-guide')

diff --git a/docs/api-guide/fields.md b/docs/api-guide/fields.md
index 946e355d..b3d274dd 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/fields.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/fields.md
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Defaults to `False`
 Normally an error will be raised if a field is not supplied during deserialization.
 Set to false if this field is not required to be present during deserialization.
 
+Setting this to `False` also allows the object attribute or dictionary key to be omitted from output when serializing the instance. If the key is not present it will simply not be included in the output representation.
+
 Defaults to `True`.
 
 ### `allow_null`
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