From e1bbe9d514c95aba596cff64292eb0f0bc7d99fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuri Prezument Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:56:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Set `allow_none = True` for CharFields with null=True --- rest_framework/serializers.py | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py index fa9353061..0164965cd 100644 --- a/rest_framework/serializers.py +++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py @@ -821,10 +821,15 @@ class ModelSerializer(Serializer): kwargs.update({attribute: getattr(model_field, attribute)}) try: - return self.field_mapping[model_field.__class__](**kwargs) + field_class = self.field_mapping[model_field.__class__] except KeyError: return ModelField(model_field=model_field, **kwargs) + if issubclass(field_class, CharField) and model_field.null: + kwargs['allow_none'] = True + + return field_class(**kwargs) + def get_validation_exclusions(self): """ Return a list of field names to exclude from model validation.