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authorClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2016-03-08 21:28:00 +0100
committerClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2016-03-08 21:30:23 +0100
commitc5fda55edc13118c344cbf6e862a3a6a038e5578 (patch)
treea2cee11aefd669ba6073707798dc554c78a21927 /docs
parent09e5409cb5b7ed427d4c751fbe2594b485794104 (diff)
Fixed #26256 -- Added note about primary key serialization
Thanks Sonu kumar for the report and Tim Graham for the review.
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-rw-r--r--docs/topics/serialization.txt3
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diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
index 6132c639bf..ea0e74fe47 100644
--- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ specify a ``fields`` argument to the serializer::
data = serializers.serialize('xml', SomeModel.objects.all(), fields=('name','size'))
In this example, only the ``name`` and ``size`` attributes of each model will
-be serialized.
+be serialized. The primary key is always serialized as the ``pk`` element in the
+resulting output; it never appears in the ``fields`` part.
.. note::