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.travis.yml

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ env:
     - TOX_ENV=py26-django15
     - TOX_ENV=py27-django14
     - TOX_ENV=py26-django14
+    - TOX_ENV=py34-django18alpha
+    - TOX_ENV=py33-django18alpha
+    - TOX_ENV=py32-django18alpha
+    - TOX_ENV=py27-django18alpha
     - TOX_ENV=py34-djangomaster
     - TOX_ENV=py33-djangomaster
     - TOX_ENV=py32-djangomaster
@@ -29,6 +33,10 @@ env:
 matrix:
   fast_finish: true
   allow_failures:
+    - env: TOX_ENV=py34-django18alpha
+    - env: TOX_ENV=py33-django18alpha
+    - env: TOX_ENV=py32-django18alpha
+    - env: TOX_ENV=py27-django18alpha
     - env: TOX_ENV=py34-djangomaster
     - env: TOX_ENV=py33-djangomaster
     - env: TOX_ENV=py32-djangomaster

README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ There is a live example API for testing purposes, [available here][sandbox].
 # Requirements
 
 * Python (2.6.5+, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)
-* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.5+, 1.6, 1.7)
+* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.6+, 1.6.3+, 1.7)
 
 # Installation
 
@@ -192,16 +192,15 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 [index]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/
 [oauth1-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/#django-rest-framework-oauth
 [oauth2-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/#django-oauth-toolkit
-[serializer-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers.html#serializers
-[modelserializer-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers.html#modelserializer
-[functionview-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/views.html#function-based-views
-[generic-views]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views.html
-[viewsets]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets.html
-[routers]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers.html
-[serializers]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers.html
-[authentication]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication.html
-
-[rest-framework-2-announcement]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement.html
+[serializer-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/#serializers
+[modelserializer-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/#modelserializer
+[functionview-section]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/views/#function-based-views
+[generic-views]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views/
+[viewsets]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/
+[routers]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers/
+[serializers]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/
+[authentication]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/
+[rest-framework-2-announcement]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement/
 [2.1.0-notes]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-rest-framework/Vv2M0CMY9bg/discussion
 [image]: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/img/quickstart.png
 

docs/api-guide/authentication.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The value of `request.user` and `request.auth` for unauthenticated requests can
 
 ## Setting the authentication scheme
 
-The default authentication schemes may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION` setting.  For example.
+The default authentication schemes may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES` setting.  For example.
 
     REST_FRAMEWORK = {
         'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ To use the `TokenAuthentication` scheme you'll need to [configure the authentica
         'rest_framework.authtoken'
     )
 
-
 ---
 
 **Note:** Make sure to run `manage.py syncdb` after changing your settings. The `rest_framework.authtoken` app provides both Django (from v1.7) and South database migrations. See [Schema migrations](#schema-migrations) below.
@@ -249,8 +248,6 @@ Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403
 
 If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests.  See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
 
----
-
 # Custom authentication
 
 To implement a custom authentication scheme, subclass `BaseAuthentication` and override the `.authenticate(self, request)` method.  The method should return a two-tuple of `(user, auth)` if authentication succeeds, or `None` otherwise.

docs/api-guide/exceptions.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The handled exceptions are:
 
 In each case, REST framework will return a response with an appropriate status code and content-type.  The body of the response will include any additional details regarding the nature of the error.
 
-By default all error responses will include a key `detail` in the body of the response, but other keys may also be included.
+Most error responses will include a key `detail` in the body of the response.
 
 For example, the following request:
 
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ Might receive an error response indicating that the `DELETE` method is not allow
 
     {"detail": "Method 'DELETE' not allowed."}
 
+Validation errors are handled slightly differently, and will include the field names as the keys in the response. If the validation error was not specific to a particular field then it will use the "non_field_errors" key, or whatever string value has been set for the `NON_FIELD_ERRORS_KEY` setting.
+
+Any example validation error might look like this:
+
+    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
+    Content-Type: application/json
+    Content-Length: 94
+
+    {"amount": ["A valid integer is required."], "description": ["This field may not be blank."]}
+
 ## Custom exception handling
 
 You can implement custom exception handling by creating a handler function that converts exceptions raised in your API views into response objects.  This allows you to control the style of error responses used by your API.

docs/api-guide/filtering.md

@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ Typically you'd instead control this by setting `order_by` on the initial querys
         queryset = User.objects.all()
         serializer_class = UserSerializer
         filter_backends = (filters.OrderingFilter,)
+        ordering_fields = ('username', 'email')
         ordering = ('username',)
 
 The `ordering` attribute may be either a string or a list/tuple of strings.
@@ -390,9 +391,9 @@ We could achieve the same behavior by overriding `get_queryset()` on the views,
 
 The following third party packages provide additional filter implementations.
 
-## Django REST framework chain
+## Django REST framework filters package
 
-The [django-rest-framework-chain package][django-rest-framework-chain] works together with the `DjangoFilterBackend` class, and allows you to easily create filters across relationships, or create multiple filter lookup types for a given field.
+The [django-rest-framework-filters package][django-rest-framework-filters] works together with the `DjangoFilterBackend` class, and allows you to easily create filters across relationships, or create multiple filter lookup types for a given field.
 
 [cite]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#retrieving-specific-objects-with-filters
 [django-filter]: https://github.com/alex/django-filter
@@ -402,4 +403,4 @@ The [django-rest-framework-chain package][django-rest-framework-chain] works tog
 [view-permissions-blogpost]: http://blog.nyaruka.com/adding-a-view-permission-to-django-models
 [nullbooleanselect]: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/widgets.py
 [search-django-admin]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.search_fields
-[django-rest-framework-chain]: https://github.com/philipn/django-rest-framework-chain
+[django-rest-framework-filters]: https://github.com/philipn/django-rest-framework-filters

docs/index.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Some reasons you might want to use REST framework:
 REST framework requires the following:
 
 * Python (2.6.5+, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)
-* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.5+, 1.6, 1.7)
+* Django (1.4.11+, 1.5.6+, 1.6.3+, 1.7)
 
 The following packages are optional:
 

docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md

@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ The resulting API changes are further detailed below.
 
 #### The `.create()` and `.update()` methods.
 
-The `.restore_object()` method is now replaced with two separate methods, `.create()` and `.update()`.
-
-These methods also replace the optional `.save_object()` method, which no longer exists.
+The `.restore_object()` method is now removed, and we instead have two separate methods, `.create()` and `.update()`. These methods work slightly different to the previous `.restore_object()`.
 
 When using the `.create()` and `.update()` methods you should both create *and save* the object instance. This is in contrast to the previous `.restore_object()` behavior that would instantiate the object but not save it.
 
+These methods also replace the optional `.save_object()` method, which no longer exists.
+
 The following example from the tutorial previously used `restore_object()` to handle both creating and updating object instances.
 
     def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None):

docs/topics/project-management.md

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serv
     #### New members.
     
     If you wish to be considered for this or a future date, please comment against this or subsequent issues.
+    
+    To modify this process for future maintenance cycles make a pull request to the [project management](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/project-management/) documentation.
 
 #### Responsibilities of team members
 
@@ -108,6 +110,8 @@ The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serv
     - [ ] Make a release announcement on the [discussion group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-rest-framework).
     - [ ] Make a release announcement on twitter.
     - [ ] Close the milestone on GitHub.
+    
+    To modify this process for future releases make a pull request to the [project management](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/project-management/) documentation.
 
 When pushing the release to PyPI ensure that your environment has been installed from our development `requirement.txt`, so that documentation and PyPI installs are consistently being built against a pinned set of packages.
 
@@ -176,6 +180,7 @@ The following issues still need to be addressed:
 * Ensure `@jamie` has back-up access to the `django-rest-framework.org` domain setup and admin.
 * Document ownership of the [live example][sandbox] API.
 * Document ownership of the [mailing list][mailing-list] and IRC channel.
+* Document ownership and management of the security mailing list.
 
 [bus-factor]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
 [un-triaged]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=is%3Aopen+no%3Alabel

docs/topics/release-notes.md

@@ -40,6 +40,27 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`:
 
 ## 3.0.x series
 
+
+### 3.0.3
+
+**Date**: [8th January 2015][3.0.3-milestone].
+
+* Fix `MinValueValidator` on `models.DateField`. ([#2369][gh2369])
+* Fix serializer missing context when pagination is used. ([#2355][gh2355])
+* Namespaced router URLs are now supported by the `DefaultRouter`. ([#2351][gh2351])
+* `required=False` allows omission of value for output. ([#2342][gh2342])
+* Use textarea input for `models.TextField`. ([#2340][gh2340])
+* Use custom `ListSerializer` for pagination if required. ([#2331][gh2331], [#2327][gh2327])
+* Better behavior with null and '' for blank HTML fields. ([#2330][gh2330])
+* Ensure fields in `exclude` are model fields. ([#2319][gh2319])
+* Fix `IntegerField` and `max_length` argument incompatibility. ([#2317][gh2317])
+* Fix the YAML encoder for 3.0 serializers. ([#2315][gh2315], [#2283][gh2283])
+* Fix the behavior of empty HTML fields. ([#2311][gh2311], [#1101][gh1101])
+* Fix Metaclass attribute depth ignoring fields attribute. ([#2287][gh2287])
+* Fix `format_suffix_patterns` to work with Django's `i18n_patterns`. ([#2278][gh2278])
+* Ability to customize router URLs for custom actions, using `url_path`. ([#2010][gh2010])
+* Don't install Django REST Framework as egg. ([#2386][gh2386])
+
 ### 3.0.2
 
 **Date**: [17th December 2014][3.0.2-milestone].
@@ -680,6 +701,7 @@ For older release notes, [please see the GitHub repo](old-release-notes).
 
 [3.0.1-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.1+Release%22
 [3.0.2-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.2+Release%22
+[3.0.3-milestone]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%223.0.3+Release%22
 
 <!-- 3.0.1 -->
 [gh2013]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2013
@@ -729,3 +751,22 @@ For older release notes, [please see the GitHub repo](old-release-notes).
 [gh2290]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2290
 [gh2291]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2291
 [gh2294]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2294
+<!-- 3.0.3 -->
+[gh1101]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/1101
+[gh2010]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2010
+[gh2278]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2278
+[gh2283]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2283
+[gh2287]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2287
+[gh2311]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2311
+[gh2315]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2315
+[gh2317]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2317
+[gh2319]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2319
+[gh2327]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2327
+[gh2330]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2330
+[gh2331]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2331
+[gh2340]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2340
+[gh2342]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2342
+[gh2351]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2351
+[gh2355]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2355
+[gh2369]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2369
+[gh2386]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2386

docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Our `SnippetSerializer` class is replicating a lot of information that's also co
 In the same way that Django provides both `Form` classes and `ModelForm` classes, REST framework includes both `Serializer` classes, and `ModelSerializer` classes.
 
 Let's look at refactoring our serializer using the `ModelSerializer` class.
-Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and edit the `SnippetSerializer` class.
+Open the file `snippets/serializers.py` again, and replace the `SnippetSerializer` class with the following.
 
     class SnippetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
         class Meta:

docs/tutorial/3-class-based-views.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ That's looking good.  Again, it's still pretty similar to the function based vie
 
 We'll also need to refactor our `urls.py` slightly now we're using class based views.
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns
     from snippets import views
 

docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ In the snippets app, create a new file, `permissions.py`
             # Write permissions are only allowed to the owner of the snippet.
             return obj.owner == request.user
 
-Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetDetail` class:
+Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetDetail` view class:
 
     permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                           IsOwnerOrReadOnly,)

docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md

@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ If we're going to have a hyperlinked API, we need to make sure we name our URL p
 
 After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `snippets/urls.py` file should look something like this:
 
+    from django.conf.urls import url, include
+
     # API endpoints
     urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns([
         url(r'^$', views.api_root),

requirements.txt

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Django>=1.4.11
 
 # Test requirements
-pytest-django==2.6
-pytest==2.5.2
+pytest-django==2.8.0
+pytest==2.6.4
 pytest-cov==1.6
 flake8==2.2.2
 

rest_framework/__init__.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ______ _____ _____ _____    __
 """
 
 __title__ = 'Django REST framework'
-__version__ = '3.0.2'
+__version__ = '3.0.3'
 __author__ = 'Tom Christie'
 __license__ = 'BSD 2-Clause'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2011-2015 Tom Christie'

rest_framework/compat.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
-from django.utils.six.moves.urllib import parse as urlparse
+from django.utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse as _urlparse
 from django.utils import six
 import django
 import inspect
@@ -38,10 +38,18 @@ def unicode_http_header(value):
     return value
 
 
+def total_seconds(timedelta):
+    # TimeDelta.total_seconds() is only available in Python 2.7
+    if hasattr(timedelta, 'total_seconds'):
+        return timedelta.total_seconds()
+    else:
+        return (timedelta.days * 86400.0) + float(timedelta.seconds) + (timedelta.microseconds / 1000000.0)
+
+
 # OrderedDict only available in Python 2.7.
 # This will always be the case in Django 1.7 and above, as these versions
 # no longer support Python 2.6.
-# For Django <= 1.6 and Python 2.6 fall back to OrderedDict.
+# For Django <= 1.6 and Python 2.6 fall back to SortedDict.
 try:
     from collections import OrderedDict
 except ImportError:
@@ -187,7 +195,7 @@ except ImportError:
 class RequestFactory(DjangoRequestFactory):
     def generic(self, method, path,
             data='', content_type='application/octet-stream', **extra):
-        parsed = urlparse.urlparse(path)
+        parsed = _urlparse(path)
         data = force_bytes_or_smart_bytes(data, settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
         r = {
             'PATH_INFO': self._get_path(parsed),

rest_framework/parsers.py

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ class FileUploadParser(BaseParser):
         for index, handler in enumerate(upload_handlers):
             file_obj = handler.file_complete(counters[index])
             if file_obj:
-                return DataAndFiles(None, {'file': file_obj})
+                return DataAndFiles({}, {'file': file_obj})
         raise ParseError("FileUpload parse error - "
                          "none of upload handlers can handle the stream")
 

rest_framework/relations.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
 from django.utils.six.moves.urllib import parse as urlparse
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from rest_framework.compat import OrderedDict
 from rest_framework.fields import get_attribute, empty, Field
 from rest_framework.reverse import reverse
 from rest_framework.utils import html
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ class RelatedField(Field):
 
     @property
     def choices(self):
-        return dict([
+        return OrderedDict([
             (
                 six.text_type(self.to_representation(item)),
                 six.text_type(item)
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@ class ManyRelatedField(Field):
             (item, self.child_relation.to_representation(item))
             for item in iterable
         ]
-        return dict([
+        return OrderedDict([
             (
                 six.text_type(item_representation),
                 six.text_type(item) + ' - ' + six.text_type(item_representation)

rest_framework/renderers.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class BaseRenderer(object):
     render_style = 'text'
 
     def render(self, data, accepted_media_type=None, renderer_context=None):
-        raise NotImplemented('Renderer class requires .render() to be implemented')
+        raise NotImplementedError('Renderer class requires .render() to be implemented')
 
 
 class JSONRenderer(BaseRenderer):

rest_framework/routers.py

@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ class BaseRouter(object):
         If `base_name` is not specified, attempt to automatically determine
         it from the viewset.
         """
-        raise NotImplemented('get_default_base_name must be overridden')
+        raise NotImplementedError('get_default_base_name must be overridden')
 
     def get_urls(self):
         """
         Return a list of URL patterns, given the registered viewsets.
         """
-        raise NotImplemented('get_urls must be overridden')
+        raise NotImplementedError('get_urls must be overridden')
 
     @property
     def urls(self):

rest_framework/settings.py

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class APISettings(object):
     For example:
 
         from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
-        print api_settings.DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES
+        print(api_settings.DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES)
 
     Any setting with string import paths will be automatically resolved
     and return the class, rather than the string literal.

rest_framework/throttling.py

@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ class BaseThrottle(object):
             if num_proxies == 0 or xff is None:
                 return remote_addr
             addrs = xff.split(',')
-            client_addr = addrs[-min(num_proxies, len(xff))]
+            client_addr = addrs[-min(num_proxies, len(addrs))]
             return client_addr.strip()
 
-        return xff if xff else remote_addr
+        return ''.join(xff.split()) if xff else remote_addr
 
     def wait(self):
         """
@@ -173,12 +173,6 @@ class AnonRateThrottle(SimpleRateThrottle):
         if request.user.is_authenticated():
             return None  # Only throttle unauthenticated requests.
 
-        ident = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
-        if ident is None:
-            ident = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
-        else:
-            ident = ''.join(ident.split())
-
         return self.cache_format % {
             'scope': self.scope,
             'ident': self.get_ident(request)

rest_framework/utils/encoders.py

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
 from django.utils import six, timezone
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
+from rest_framework.compat import total_seconds
 import datetime
 import decimal
 import json
+import uuid
 
 
 class JSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
@@ -38,10 +40,12 @@ class JSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
                 representation = representation[:12]
             return representation
         elif isinstance(obj, datetime.timedelta):
-            return six.text_type(obj.total_seconds())
+            return six.text_type(total_seconds(obj))
         elif isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
             # Serializers will coerce decimals to strings by default.
             return float(obj)
+        elif isinstance(obj, uuid.UUID):
+            return six.text_type(obj)
         elif isinstance(obj, QuerySet):
             return tuple(obj)
         elif hasattr(obj, 'tolist'):

rest_framework/utils/serializer_helpers.py

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ class ReturnDict(OrderedDict):
     def copy(self):
         return ReturnDict(self, serializer=self.serializer)
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return dict.__repr__(self)
+
 
 class ReturnList(list):
     """
@@ -27,6 +30,9 @@ class ReturnList(list):
         self.serializer = kwargs.pop('serializer')
         super(ReturnList, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return list.__repr__(self)
+
 
 class BoundField(object):
     """

setup.py

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ setup(
     packages=get_packages('rest_framework'),
     package_data=get_package_data('rest_framework'),
     install_requires=[],
+    zip_safe=False,
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Environment :: Web Environment',

tests/test_multitable_inheritance.py

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ class InheritedModelSerializationTests(TestCase):
         Assert that a model with a onetoone field that is the primary key is
         not treated like a derived model
         """
-        parent = ParentModel(name1='parent name')
-        associate = AssociatedModel(name='hello', ref=parent)
+        parent = ParentModel.objects.create(name1='parent name')
+        associate = AssociatedModel.objects.create(name='hello', ref=parent)
         serializer = AssociatedModelSerializer(associate)
         self.assertEqual(set(serializer.data.keys()),
                          set(['name', 'ref']))

tox.ini

@@ -3,27 +3,27 @@ envlist =
        py27-{flake8,docs},
        {py26,py27}-django14,
        {py26,py27,py32,py33,py34}-django{15,16},
-       {py27,py32,py33,py34}-django17,
-       {py27,py32,py33,py34}-djangomaster
+       {py27,py32,py33,py34}-django{17,18alpha,master}
 
 [testenv]
 commands = ./runtests.py --fast
 setenv =
        PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 deps =
-       django14: Django==1.4.11
-       django15: Django==1.5.5
-       django16: Django==1.6.8
-       django17: Django==1.7.1
+       django14: Django==1.4.11  # Should track minimum supported
+       django15: Django==1.5.6  # Should track minimum supported
+       django16: Django==1.6.3  # Should track minimum supported
+       django17: Django==1.7.2  # Should track maximum supported
+       django18alpha: https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.8a1/tarball/
        djangomaster: https://github.com/django/django/zipball/master
        django-guardian==1.2.4
-       pytest-django==2.6.1
+       pytest-django==2.8.0
        django-filter==0.9.1
        markdown>=2.1.0
 
 [testenv:py27-flake8]
 deps =
-       pytest==2.5.2
+       pytest==2.6.4
        flake8==2.2.2
 commands = ./runtests.py --lintonly