Commit 53561837 authored by Markus Holtermann's avatar Markus Holtermann Committed by Tim Graham
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[1.7.x] Fixed #22959 -- Documented that class-based validators need to be deconstructible.

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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ use the same validator with forms::
    class MyForm(forms.Form):
        even_field = forms.IntegerField(validators=[validate_even])

You can also use a class with a ``__call__()`` method for more complex or
configurable validators. :class:`RegexValidator`, for example, uses this
technique. If a class-based validator is used in the
:attr:`~django.db.models.Field.validators` model field option, you should make
sure it is :ref:`serializable by the migration framework
<migration-serializing>` by adding :ref:`deconstruct()
<custom-deconstruct-method>` and ``__eq__()`` methods.

How validators are run
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