unique=True validation not working with models.CharField with choices

[Ekluv]

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Steps to reproduce

Lets take a model

MY_CHOICES = (
    ('choice1', _('choice 1')),
    ('choice2', _('choice 1')),
)

class Poll(models.Model):
    form_name = models.CharField('name', max_length=254,
                                 unique=True, choices=MY_CHOICES)

class PollSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
	class Meta:
		model = Poll
		fields = '__all__'

class PollCreateView(generics.CreateAPIView):
	serializer_class = PollSerializer

Then making a POST request with {"form_name": "choice1"} first time returns { "id": 1, "form_name": "choice1" }

then by making same request again with data {"form_name": "choice1"} instead of giving valid error response, django's IntegrityError exception is thrown.

This behaviour is only coming if models.CharField is used with choices and unique=True and not when models.CharField is used without choices

Expected behavior

Valid error response should be returned instead of throwing django's IntegrityError exception
like { "form_name": [ "poll with this name already exists." ] }

Actual behavior

Throwing django's IntegrityError exception when models.CharField is used with choices and unique=True

[Ekluv]

any update on this ?

[tomchristie]

Confirmed...

>>> from rest_framework.serializers import ModelSerializer
>>> from snippets.models import Poll
>>> class Foo(ModelSerializer):
...     class Meta:
...         model = Poll
...         fields = '__all__'
... 
>>> print(Foo())
Foo():
    id = IntegerField(label='ID', read_only=True)
    form_name = ChoiceField(choices=(('choice1', 'choice 1'), ('choice2', 'choice 1')), label='Name')

uniqueness validation has not been applied to the ChoiceField.

[jpadilla]

Seems like this is the culprit.

[tomchristie]

Indeed yup, some careful rejigging will be needed there, since there are some keyword arguments that we don't want to include for ChoiceField.
Right now we're erroneously stripping validators tho, so we want to add just that back in.

[jpadilla]

@tomchristie just removing that early return seems to work since all the checks below have constraint around the field type already.

PollSerializer():
    id = IntegerField(label='ID', read_only=True)
    form_name = ChoiceField(choices=((u'choice1', u'choice 1'), (u'choice2', u'choice 1')), label='Name', validators=[<UniqueValidator(queryset=Poll.objects.all())>])

[Ekluv]

@jpadilla: in #5026 just removing early return may create issues. It will also include validation for max_value and min_value which may not be required for choice field.
#5028 take cares of this.
@tomchristie : please give your concerns if any.

[jpadilla]

Fixed via #5028