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Update writable nested serializers status #5711

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Because the behavior of nested creates and updates can be ambiguous, and may require complex dependencies between related models, REST framework 3 requires you to always write these methods explicitly. The default `ModelSerializer` `.create()` and `.update()` methods do not include support for writable nested representations.

It is possible that a third party package, providing automatic support some kinds of automatic writable nested representations may be released alongside the 3.1 release.
There are however, third-party packages available such as [DRF Writable Nested][thirdparty-writable-nested] that support automatic writable nested representations.

#### Handling saving related instances in model manager classes

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[relations]: relations.md
[model-managers]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/db/managers/
[encapsulation-blogpost]: http://www.dabapps.com/blog/django-models-and-encapsulation/
[thirdparty-writable-nested]: serializers.md#drf-writable-nested
[django-rest-marshmallow]: http://tomchristie.github.io/django-rest-marshmallow/
[marshmallow]: https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[serpy]: https://github.com/clarkduvall/serpy
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