Fixed #15889 -- when trying to access to access a serializer that doesn't exist, raise a new SerializerDoesNotExist exception. Thanks to Mathieu Agopian for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16104 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
index c8acc8539e..f0f17b2ee2 100644
--- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ This is useful if you want to serialize data directly to a file-like object
     out = open("file.xml", "w")
     xml_serializer.serialize(SomeModel.objects.all(), stream=out)
 
+.. note::
+
+    Calling :func:`~django.core.serializers.get_serializer` with an unknown
+    :ref:`format <serialization-formats>` will raise a
+    :class:`~django.core.serializers.SerializerDoesNotExist` exception.
+
 Subset of fields
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~