id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 15886 Improve django.core.serializers.get_serializer() docs Roy Smith nobody "By experimentation, it appears that calling get_serializer() with an unknown format raises KeyError, but this is not documented. It should be documented what the behavior is. Even better (maybe this should be a separate issue), it should raise some more specific exception, which would make it easier to handle at a higher level (such as middleware)." New feature closed Documentation 1.3 Normal duplicate mathieu.agopian@… Accepted 1 0 0 0 1 0