Django Deserializer Bug On Foreign Key When None

THis is more for myself than anyone else but remind me to submit this to the bug list. Or at least check if it exists already. When deserializing a model with a foreign key whose value is set to None I get the following exeption:

The Bug

The Fix

I needed a fix quick and I’m not sure this is the best way to do it. The error is at:

The code was attempting to do an object lookup on a key value of None. The exception only checks for does not exist but for some reason the code was returning them all. I added a check to see if the value of the key is None to prevent a lookup in the first place. The following fixed the issue:

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