Deal with ValidationError instantiation

rest_framework/exceptions.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ In addition Django's built in 403 and 404 exceptions are handled.
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import math
+from collections import namedtuple
 
 from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ class APIException(Exception):
 def build_error_from_django_validation_error(exc_info):
     code = getattr(exc_info, 'code', None) or 'invalid'
     return [
-        (msg, code)
+        ErrorDetails(msg, code)
         for msg in exc_info.messages
     ]
 
@@ -72,60 +73,61 @@ def build_error_from_django_validation_error(exc_info):
 # from rest_framework import serializers
 # raise serializers.ValidationError('Value was invalid')
 
+ErrorDetails = namedtuple('ErrorDetails', ['message', 'code'])
+
 
 class ValidationError(APIException):
     status_code = status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST
     code = None
 
     def __init__(self, detail, code=None):
-        # For validation errors the 'detail' key is always required.
-        # The details should always be coerced to a list if not already.
-
         if code:
-            self.full_details = [(detail, code)]
+            self.full_details = ErrorDetails(detail, code)
         else:
             self.full_details = detail
 
-        if isinstance(self.full_details, tuple):
+        if not isinstance(self.full_details, dict) \
-            self.detail, self.code = self.full_details
+                and not isinstance(self.full_details, list):
-            self.detail = [self.detail]
+            self.full_details = [self.full_details]
+        self.full_details = _force_text_recursive(self.full_details)
 
-        elif isinstance(self.full_details, list):
+        self.detail = detail
+        if isinstance(self.full_details, list):
             if isinstance(self.full_details, ReturnList):
-                self.detail = ReturnList(serializer=self.full_details.serializer)
+                self.detail = ReturnList(
+                    serializer=self.full_details.serializer)
             else:
                 self.detail = []
-            for error in self.full_details:
+            for full_detail in self.full_details:
-                if isinstance(error, tuple):
+                if isinstance(full_detail, ErrorDetails):
-                    message, code = error
+                    self.detail.append(full_detail.message)
-                    self.detail.append(message)
+                elif isinstance(full_detail, dict):
-                elif isinstance(error, dict):
+                    if not full_detail:
-                    self.detail = self.full_details
+                        self.detail.append(full_detail)
-                    break
+                    for key, value in full_detail.items():
-
+                        if isinstance(value, list):
+                            self.detail.append(
+                                {key: [item.message]
+                                    if isinstance(item, ErrorDetails)
+                                    else [item] for item in value})
+                elif isinstance(full_detail, list):
+                    self.detail.extend(full_detail)
+                else:
+                    self.detail.append(full_detail)
         elif isinstance(self.full_details, dict):
             if isinstance(self.full_details, ReturnDict):
-                self.detail = ReturnDict(serializer=self.full_details.serializer)
+                self.detail = ReturnDict(
+                    serializer=self.full_details.serializer)
             else:
                 self.detail = {}
-
+            for field_name, full_detail in self.full_details.items():
-            for field_name, errors in self.full_details.items():
+                if isinstance(full_detail, list):
-                self.detail[field_name] = []
+                    self.detail[field_name] = [
-                if isinstance(errors, tuple):
+                        item.message if isinstance(item, ErrorDetails) else item
-                    message, code = errors
+                        for item in full_detail
-                    self.detail[field_name].append(message)
+                    ]
-                elif isinstance(errors, list):
+                else:
-                    for error in errors:
+                    self.detail[field_name] = full_detail
-                        if isinstance(error, tuple):
-                            message, code = error
-                        else:
-                            message = error
-                        if message:
-                            self.detail[field_name].append(message)
-        else:
-            self.detail = [self.full_details]
-
-        self.detail = _force_text_recursive(self.detail)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return six.text_type(self.detail)

rest_framework/fields.py

@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ class Field(object):
                 # attempting to accumulate a list of errors.
                 if isinstance(exc.detail, dict):
                     raise
-                errors.append((exc.detail, exc.code))
+                errors.append(exc.full_details)
             except DjangoValidationError as exc:
                 errors.extend(build_error_from_django_validation_error(exc))
         if errors:

rest_framework/serializers.py

@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from rest_framework.compat import DurationField as ModelDurationField
 from rest_framework.compat import JSONField as ModelJSONField
 from rest_framework.compat import postgres_fields, unicode_to_repr
-from rest_framework.exceptions import build_error_from_django_validation_error
+from rest_framework.exceptions import (
+    ErrorDetails, build_error_from_django_validation_error
+)
 from rest_framework.utils import model_meta
 from rest_framework.utils.field_mapping import (
     ClassLookupDict, get_field_kwargs, get_nested_relation_kwargs,
@@ -214,12 +216,12 @@ class BaseSerializer(Field):
                 self._validated_data = self.run_validation(self.initial_data)
             except ValidationError as exc:
                 self._validated_data = {}
-                self._errors = exc.full_details
+                self._errors = exc.detail
             else:
                 self._errors = {}
 
         if self._errors and raise_exception:
-            raise ValidationError(self._errors)
+            raise ValidationError(self.errors)
 
         return not bool(self._errors)
 
@@ -249,36 +251,7 @@ class BaseSerializer(Field):
         if not hasattr(self, '_errors'):
             msg = 'You must call `.is_valid()` before accessing `.errors`.'
             raise AssertionError(msg)
-
+        return self._errors
-        if isinstance(self._errors, dict):
-            errors = ReturnDict(serializer=self)
-            for key, value in self._errors.items():
-                if isinstance(value, dict):
-                    errors[key] = {}
-                    for key_, value_ in value.items():
-                        message, code = value_[0]
-                        errors[key][key_] = [message]
-                elif isinstance(value, list):
-                    if isinstance(value[0], tuple):
-                        message, code = value[0]
-                    else:
-                        message = value[0]
-                    if isinstance(message, list):
-                        errors[key] = message
-                    else:
-                        errors[key] = [message]
-                elif isinstance(value, tuple):
-                    message, code = value
-                    errors[key] = [message]
-                else:
-                    errors[key] = [value]
-        elif isinstance(self._errors, list):
-            errors = ReturnList(self._errors, serializer=self)
-        else:
-            # This shouldn't ever happen.
-            errors = self._errors
-
-        return errors
 
     @property
     def validated_data(self):
@@ -333,21 +306,21 @@ def get_validation_error_detail(exc):
         return {
             api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: error
         }
-    elif isinstance(exc.full_details, dict):
+    elif isinstance(exc.detail, dict):
         # If errors may be a dict we use the standard {key: list of values}.
         # Here we ensure that all the values are *lists* of errors.
         return {
             key: value if isinstance(value, list) else [value]
-            for key, value in exc.full_details.items()
+            for key, value in exc.detail.items()
         }
-    elif isinstance(exc.full_details, list):
+    elif isinstance(exc.detail, list):
         # Errors raised as a list are non-field errors.
         return {
-            api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: exc.full_details
+            api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: exc.detail
         }
     # Errors raised as a string are non-field errors.
     return {
-        api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [exc.full_details]
+        api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [exc.detail]
     }
 
 
@@ -455,11 +428,11 @@ class Serializer(BaseSerializer):
             )
             code = 'invalid'
             raise ValidationError({
-                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [(message, code)]
+                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [ErrorDetails(message, code)]
             })
 
-        ret = ReturnDict(serializer=self)
+        ret = OrderedDict()
-        errors = ReturnDict(serializer=self)
+        errors = OrderedDict()
         fields = self._writable_fields
 
         for field in fields:
@@ -470,7 +443,7 @@ class Serializer(BaseSerializer):
                 if validate_method is not None:
                     validated_value = validate_method(validated_value)
             except ValidationError as exc:
-                errors[field.field_name] = exc.full_details
+                errors[field.field_name] = exc.detail
             except DjangoValidationError as exc:
                 error = build_error_from_django_validation_error(exc)
                 errors[field.field_name] = error
@@ -610,14 +583,14 @@ class ListSerializer(BaseSerializer):
             )
             code = 'not_a_list'
             raise ValidationError({
-                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [(message, code)]
+                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [ErrorDetails(message, code)]
             })
 
         if not self.allow_empty and len(data) == 0:
             message = self.error_messages['empty']
             code = 'empty_not_allowed'
             raise ValidationError({
-                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [(message, code)]
+                api_settings.NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY: [ErrorDetails(message, code)]
             })
 
         ret = []

rest_framework/validators.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 from rest_framework.compat import unicode_to_repr
-from rest_framework.exceptions import ValidationError
+from rest_framework.exceptions import ErrorDetails, ValidationError
 from rest_framework.utils.representation import smart_repr
 
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class UniqueTogetherValidator(object):
 
         code = 'required'
         missing = {
-            field_name: [(self.missing_message, code)]
+            field_name: ErrorDetails(self.missing_message, code)
             for field_name in self.fields
             if field_name not in attrs
         }
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class UniqueTogetherValidator(object):
             field_names = ', '.join(self.fields)
             message = self.message.format(field_names=field_names)
             code = 'unique'
-            raise ValidationError(message, code=code)
+            raise ValidationError(ErrorDetails(message, code=code))
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return unicode_to_repr('<%s(queryset=%s, fields=%s)>' % (
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class BaseUniqueForValidator(object):
         """
         code = 'required'
         missing = {
-            field_name: [(self.missing_message, code)]
+            field_name: ErrorDetails(self.missing_message, code)
             for field_name in [self.field, self.date_field]
             if field_name not in attrs
         }
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class BaseUniqueForValidator(object):
         if queryset.exists():
             message = self.message.format(date_field=self.date_field)
             code = 'unique'
-            raise ValidationError({self.field: [(message, code)]})
+            raise ValidationError({self.field: ErrorDetails(message, code)})
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return unicode_to_repr('<%s(queryset=%s, field=%s, date_field=%s)>' % (

tests/test_validation_error.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class TestValidationErrorWithCode(TestCase):
 
         def exception_handler(exc, request):
             return_errors = {}
-            for field_name, errors in exc.full_details.items():
+            for field_name, errors in exc.detail.items():
                 return_errors[field_name] = []
                 for message, code in errors:
                     return_errors[field_name].append({