From 26eb7c786b651fcac96909c18817313bb4dc3306 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Chang <kevincgw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:51:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Overriding Field.__deepcopy__ for RegexField

Compiled regex pattern cannot be deepcopied. The overridden
__deepcopy__ mimics the behavior as the parent method, but
checks for `regex` instead of `validators`
---
 rest_framework/fields.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 13301f31b..5def05146 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -612,6 +612,18 @@ class RegexField(CharField):
         validator = RegexValidator(regex, message=self.error_messages['invalid'])
         self.validators.append(validator)
 
+    def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
+        # Handling case when regex is not passed in kwargs.
+        args = self._args[:1] + copy.deepcopy(self._args[1:])
+        kwargs = dict(self._kwargs)
+
+        # deepcopy doesn't work on compiled regex pattern
+        regex = kwargs.pop('regex', None)
+        kwargs = copy.deepcopy(kwargs)
+        if regex is not None:
+            kwargs['regex'] = regex
+        return self.__class__(*args, **kwargs)
+
 
 class SlugField(CharField):
     default_error_messages = {