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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 |