Add allow_null serialization output note #5641
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carltongibson
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Thanks @rpkilby.
I'm basically +1 here, since there's always a degree of confusion as to how these flags interact.
Bottom line is (I guess) it's just complicated but until such a time as we can re-work things/docs to be clearer more detail is better.
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| Normally an error will be raised if `None` is passed to a serializer field. Set this keyword argument to `True` if `None` should be considered a valid value. | |||
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| Note that setting this argument to `True` will imply a default value of `null` for serialization output, but does imply a default for input deserialization. | |||
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Hi,
shouldn't this:
but does imply a default for input deserialization.
be instead:
but does not imply a default for input deserialization.
Sorry for the noise if I'm wrong :)
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Yep - that's definitely a typo.
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From #5639, although I'm indifferent to its inclusion.