Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#22497 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Documentation should highlight the different between field and class deconstruction

Reported by: reames@… Owned by: Tim Graham
Component: Documentation Version: 1.7-beta-2
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I'm looking at the documentation on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/ for the deconstruct() method, where it states:

It takes no arguments, and should return a tuple of 3 things: (path, args, kwargs).

But, it actually should return 4 items as shown in the code:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.7.x/django/db/migrations/state.py#L127

Change History (4)

comment:1 by nliberg, 11 years ago

I too was confused by this at first.
For Fields a 4-tuple including the field name is returned. Documented here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/custom-model-fields/#field-deconstruction
For other custom classes a 3-tuple is returned. Documented here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/#custom-deconstruct-method

The latter text should probably mention and link to the former.

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Tim Graham
Status: newassigned
Summary: Documentation for deconstruct is wrongDocumentation should highlight the different between field and class deconstruction
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: UncategorizedCleanup/optimization

comment:3 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In b829d53b37946d5e3148e2c51ae7ec41f470b756:

Fixed #22497 -- Highlighted difference between field and class deconstruction.

Thanks nliberg for the suggestion.

comment:4 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 11 years ago

In 63ae243a13759f2a87184784fa268d6d003c694a:

[1.7.x] Fixed #22497 -- Highlighted difference between field and class deconstruction.

Thanks nliberg for the suggestion.

Backport of b829d53b37 from master

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