Switch to using native ProhibitNullCharactersValidator instead

docs/api-guide/fields.md

@@ -153,7 +153,6 @@ Corresponds to `django.db.models.fields.CharField` or `django.db.models.fields.T
 - `max_length` - Validates that the input contains no more than this number of characters.
 - `min_length` - Validates that the input contains no fewer than this number of characters.
 - `allow_blank` - If set to `True` then the empty string should be considered a valid value. If set to `False` then the empty string is considered invalid and will raise a validation error. Defaults to `False`.
-- `allow_null_bytes` - If set to `False`, strings containing NULL bytes will be rejected. You may want to set this to `False` if the string is saved to a database. Defaults to `True`.
 - `trim_whitespace` - If set to `True` then leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed. Defaults to `True`.
 
 The `allow_null` option is also available for string fields, although its usage is discouraged in favor of `allow_blank`. It is valid to set both `allow_blank=True` and `allow_null=True`, but doing so means that there will be two differing types of empty value permissible for string representations, which can lead to data inconsistencies and subtle application bugs.

rest_framework/compat.py

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ except ImportError:
         RegexURLResolver as URLResolver,
     )
 
+try:
+    from django.core.validators import ProhibitNullCharactersValidator  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    ProhibitNullCharactersValidator = None
+
 
 def get_original_route(urlpattern):
     """

rest_framework/fields.py

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ from pytz.exceptions import InvalidTimeError
 from rest_framework import ISO_8601
 from rest_framework.compat import (
     MaxLengthValidator, MaxValueValidator, MinLengthValidator,
-    MinValueValidator, unicode_repr, unicode_to_repr
+    MinValueValidator, ProhibitNullCharactersValidator, unicode_repr,
+    unicode_to_repr
 )
 from rest_framework.exceptions import ErrorDetail, ValidationError
 from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
@@ -755,13 +756,11 @@ class CharField(Field):
         'blank': _('This field may not be blank.'),
         'max_length': _('Ensure this field has no more than {max_length} characters.'),
         'min_length': _('Ensure this field has at least {min_length} characters.'),
-        'nulls': _('This field may not include NULL bytes.'),
     }
     initial = ''
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         self.allow_blank = kwargs.pop('allow_blank', False)
-        self.allow_null_bytes = kwargs.pop('allow_null_bytes', True)
         self.trim_whitespace = kwargs.pop('trim_whitespace', True)
         self.max_length = kwargs.pop('max_length', None)
         self.min_length = kwargs.pop('min_length', None)
@@ -779,6 +778,10 @@ class CharField(Field):
             self.validators.append(
                 MinLengthValidator(self.min_length, message=message))
 
+        # ProhibitNullCharactersValidator is None on Django < 2.0
+        if ProhibitNullCharactersValidator is not None:
+            self.validators.append(ProhibitNullCharactersValidator())
+
     def run_validation(self, data=empty):
         # Test for the empty string here so that it does not get validated,
         # and so that subclasses do not need to handle it explicitly
@@ -787,8 +790,6 @@ class CharField(Field):
             if not self.allow_blank:
                 self.fail('blank')
             return ''
-        if not self.allow_null_bytes and '\0' in six.text_type(data):
-            self.fail('nulls')
         return super(CharField, self).run_validation(data)
 
     def to_internal_value(self, data):

tests/test_fields.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from django.utils.timezone import activate, deactivate, override, utc
 
 import rest_framework
 from rest_framework import exceptions, serializers
+from rest_framework.compat import ProhibitNullCharactersValidator
 from rest_framework.fields import DjangoImageField, is_simple_callable
 
 try:
@@ -718,19 +719,15 @@ class TestCharField(FieldValues):
             field.run_validation('   ')
         assert exc_info.value.detail == ['This field may not be blank.']
 
-    def test_allow_null_bytes(self):
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(ProhibitNullCharactersValidator is None, reason="Skipped on Django < 2.0")
-        field = serializers.CharField(allow_null_bytes=True)
+    def test_null_bytes(self):
-        for value in ('\0', 'foo\0', '\0foo', 'foo\0foo'):
+        field = serializers.CharField()
-            field.run_validation(value)
-
-    def test_disallow_null_bytes(self):
-        field = serializers.CharField(allow_null_bytes=False)
 
         for value in ('\0', 'foo\0', '\0foo', 'foo\0foo'):
             with pytest.raises(serializers.ValidationError) as exc_info:
                 field.run_validation(value)
             assert exc_info.value.detail == [
-                serializers.CharField.default_error_messages['nulls']
+                'Null characters are not allowed.'
             ]