Added support for serializing class methods. - Refs #21290.

The new handling allows us to do away with the whitelisting that was
required to support date and datetime objects.

django/db/migrations/writer.py

@@ -148,18 +148,9 @@ class MigrationWriter(object):
             return cls.serialize_deconstructed(path, args, kwargs)
         # Functions
         elif isinstance(value, (types.FunctionType, types.BuiltinFunctionType)):
-            # Special-cases, as these don't have im_class
+            # @classmethod?
-            special_cases = [
+            if getattr(value, "__self__", None) and isinstance(value.__self__, type):
-                (datetime.datetime.now, "datetime.datetime.now", ["import datetime"]),
+                klass = value.__self__
-                (datetime.datetime.utcnow, "datetime.datetime.utcnow", ["import datetime"]),
-                (datetime.date.today, "datetime.date.today", ["import datetime"]),
-            ]
-            for func, string, imports in special_cases:
-                if func == value:  # For some reason "utcnow is not utcnow"
-                    return string, set(imports)
-            # Method?
-            if hasattr(value, "im_class"):
-                klass = value.im_class
                 module = klass.__module__
                 return "%s.%s.%s" % (module, klass.__name__, value.__name__), set(["import %s" % module])
             elif hasattr(value, 'deconstruct'):

tests/migrations/test_writer.py

@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ class WriterTests(TestCase):
         # Datetime stuff
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.utcnow())
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.utcnow)
+        self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.today())
+        self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.today)
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.date.today())
         self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.date.today)
         # Django fields