From 026f164f7a0f813c0d29113d7451eff0eff4a440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Baumann <j@rrod.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 13:15:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Stupidly referenced an attribute that will not always be
 populated.  Replaced with a call to getattr with a default None value

---
 rest_framework/fields.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 95d5d3712..45c4d4edf 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ class Field(object):
         if data is empty:
             if getattr(self.root, 'partial', False):
                 raise SkipField()
-            if self.required and not self.allow_blank:
+            if self.required and not getattr(self, 'allow_blank', None):
                 self.fail('required')
             return self.get_default()