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authorMd. Sadaf Noor <sadaf2605@gmail.com>2016-07-03 12:59:47 +0600
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2016-07-12 13:46:49 -0400
commit5d8332aaee77c8e598e93f67fa9061538d98b54f (patch)
treeafc4e51a73738065de79b15b0a60c2060610e907 /docs/topics/http
parenta01d3d5776c8acb56ce4d54ab30aa381e1ecee63 (diff)
[1.10.x] Fixed #26831 -- Documented session data must be JSON encodable for JSONSerializer.
Backport of 1f82b857ceb75f2d7a68e79c6a00c30bfe7f1318 from master
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt b/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt
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+++ b/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ Bundled serializers
>>> request.session['0']
'bar'
+ Similarly, data that can't be encoded in JSON, such as non-UTF8 bytes like
+ ``'\xd9'`` (which raises :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`), can't be stored.
+
See the :ref:`custom-serializers` section for more details on limitations
of JSON serialization.