diff options
| author | Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> | 2010-02-14 18:39:42 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> | 2010-02-14 18:39:42 +0000 |
| commit | 3d849047949c494e10fcb6c1f85fe9b43fd4f478 (patch) | |
| tree | d7875343867185cf2e03df7a960eb1a79c010789 /docs | |
| parent | 1d078be448ab45f5e865f50053a23705023e3c53 (diff) | |
Fixed #12840: mark natural key serialization in the docs as new in 1.2. Thanks, ramiro.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12432 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/serialization.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt index 62b8869313..b715da79ce 100644 --- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt +++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt @@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ them. Something like this will work:: Natural keys ------------ +.. versionadded:: 1.2 + The ability to use natural keys when serializing/deserializing data was + added in the 1.2 release. + The default serialization strategy for foreign keys and many-to-many relations is to serialize the value of the primary key(s) of the objects in the relation. This strategy works well for most types of @@ -341,7 +345,7 @@ a `forward reference` with natural keys - the data you are referencing must exist before you include a natural key reference to that data. To accommodate this limitation, calls to :djadmin:`dumpdata` that use -the :djadminopt:`--natural` optionwill serialize any model with a +the :djadminopt:`--natural` option will serialize any model with a ``natural_key()`` method before it serializes normal key objects. However, this may not always be enough. If your natural key refers to |