Document serializing querysets

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Tom Christie 2013-02-12 12:14:58 +00:00
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serializer = CommentSerializer(comment, data={'content': u'foo bar'}, partial=True) # Update `instance` with partial data
## Serializing querysets
To serialize a queryset instead of an object instance, you should pass the `many=True` flag when instantiating the serializer.
queryset = Comment.objects.all()
serializer = CommentSerializer(queryset, many=True)
serializer.data
# [{'email': u'leila@example.com', 'content': u'foo bar', 'created': datetime.datetime(2012, 8, 22, 16, 20, 9, 822774)}, {'email': u'jamie@example.com', 'content': u'baz', 'created': datetime.datetime(2013, 1, 12, 16, 12, 45, 104445)}]
## Validation
When deserializing data, you always need to call `is_valid()` before attempting to access the deserialized object. If any validation errors occur, the `.errors` and `.non_field_errors` properties will contain the resulting error messages.