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23780	Easy to use natural keys from a tuple on meta	Brian Faherty	nobody	Having to implement two methods on two different objects in order to use natural keys is very cumbersome. I would think we could implement something on a models meta to take a tuple of field names for use in both the natural_key and get_by_natural_key methods. I implemented this in a way that would be overridable to keep compatible with the current methods but would allow for easy use in the future. Working code with this is here https://github.com/scrummyin/django/commit/7e562127c3a9610ae3ad9fab6855a005f4d4706f. Includes 6 more tests around a two new methods, with same name but on the model and manager. The old tests are still working with minimal changes. The minimal change is to use a new method to check for a natural_key instead of hasattr. The pull request branch has all	New feature	new	Core (Serialization)	dev	Normal				Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0