From 5697f87914406b070d47bab45e0137337a0fb746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:23:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #8701, a couple of bad links in the docs. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8941 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/topics/serialization.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt index db9515960e6..c138fc23be2 100644 --- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt +++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt @@ -57,25 +57,26 @@ be serialized. Inherited Models ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -If you have a model that is defined using an `abstract base class`_, you don't -have to do anything special to serialize that model. Just call the serializer -on the object (or objects) that you want to serialize, and the output will be -a complete representation of the serialized object. +If you have a model that is defined using an :ref:`abstract base class +`, you don't have to do anything special to serialize +that model. Just call the serializer on the object (or objects) that you want to +serialize, and the output will be a complete representation of the serialized +object. -However, if you have a model that uses `multi-table inheritance`_, you also -need to serialize all of the base classes for the model. This is because only -the fields that are locally defined on the model will be serialized. For -example, consider the following models:: +However, if you have a model that uses :ref:`multi-table inheritance +`, you also need to serialize all of the base classes +for the model. This is because only the fields that are locally defined on the +model will be serialized. For example, consider the following models:: - class Place(models.Model): - name = models.CharField(max_length=50) + class Place(models.Model): + name = models.CharField(max_length=50) - class Restaurant(Place): - serves_hot_dogs = models.BooleanField() + class Restaurant(Place): + serves_hot_dogs = models.BooleanField() If you only serialize the Restaurant model:: - data = serializers.serialize('xml', Restaurant.objects.all()) + data = serializers.serialize('xml', Restaurant.objects.all()) the fields on the serialized output will only contain the `serves_hot_dogs` attribute. The `name` attribute of the base class will be ignored. @@ -83,11 +84,8 @@ attribute. The `name` attribute of the base class will be ignored. In order to fully serialize your Restaurant instances, you will need to serialize the Place models as well:: - all_objects = list(Restaurant.objects.all()) + list(Place.objects.all()) - data = serializers.serialize('xml', all_objects) - -.. _abstract base class: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model-api/#abstract-base-classes -.. _multi-table inheritance: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model-api/#multi-table-inheritance + all_objects = list(Restaurant.objects.all()) + list(Place.objects.all()) + data = serializers.serialize('xml', all_objects) Deserializing data ------------------