Serialization docs lack information on specific formats

[chrisw]

This paragraph:

​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/#providing-initial-data-with-fixtures

...promises that the serialization docs will give an explanation of the serialisation formats. They don't. In fact the initial-data docs come closest to doing this with the JSON and YAML examples, but nothing for the XML.

So, the bug is that the promise should be fulfilled and the actual formats should be documented somewhere in:

​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/serialization/#id1

For example, what brought me to this:

• How do I do a datetime in JSON?
• What's the schema for the XML import? How do I do different field types with it?

cheers,

Chris

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

[Horst Gutmann]

Would a documented example for each format be sufficient here? Esp. for XML there should also be an XSD.

[Horst Gutmann]

A first draft can be found here: ​https://github.com/zerok/django/commits/tickets/11971

Would this be detailed enough?

[Horst Gutmann]

I converted this into a pull request be better readability: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/815

[Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@…>]

In b6aede326803bfdf18f932ec2fa8b9304467d29f:

Merge pull request #815 from zerok/tickets/11971

Fixed #11971 -- Documented the serialization formats