Commit 4cef9a09 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Fixed #17388 - Noted in the custom model field docs that field methods need to... 

Fixed #17388 - Noted in the custom model field docs that field methods need to handle None if the field may be null.
parent 0b908b92

docs/howto/custom-model-fields.txt

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@@ -448,6 +448,13 @@ called when it is created, you should be using `The SubfieldBase metaclass`_ 
mentioned earlier. Otherwise :meth:`.to_python` won't be called

automatically.



.. warning::



    If your custom field allows ``null=True``, any field method that takes

    ``value`` as an argument, like :meth:`~Field.to_python` and

    :meth:`~Field.get_prep_value`, should handle the case when ``value`` is

    ``None``.



Converting Python objects to query values

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