Fixed #17413 -- Serialization of form errors along with all metadata.

docs/ref/forms/api.txt

@@ -117,6 +117,27 @@ The validation routines will only get called once, regardless of how many times
 you access :attr:`~Form.errors` or call :meth:`~Form.is_valid`. This means that
 if validation has side effects, those side effects will only be triggered once.
 
+.. method:: Form.errors.as_data()
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
+Returns a ``dict`` that maps fields to their original ``ValidationError``
+instances.
+
+    >>> f.errors.as_data()
+    {'sender': [ValidationError(['Enter a valid email address.'])],
+    'subject': [ValidationError(['This field is required.'])]}
+
+.. method:: Form.errors.as_json()
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
+Returns the errors serialized as JSON.
+
+    >>> f.errors.as_json()
+    {"sender": [{"message": "Enter a valid email address.", "code": "invalid"}],
+    "subject": [{"message": "This field is required.", "code": "required"}]}
+
 .. method:: Form.add_error(field, error)
 
 .. versionadded:: 1.7

docs/releases/1.7.txt

@@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ Forms
 * The new :meth:`~django.forms.Form.add_error()` method allows adding errors
   to specific form fields.
 
+* The dict-like attribute :attr:`~django.forms.Form.errors` now has two new
+  methods :meth:`~django.forms.Form.errors.as_data()` and
+  :meth:`~django.forms.Form.errors.as_json()`. The former returns a ``dict``
+  that maps fields to their original errors, complete with all metadata
+  (error code and params), the latter returns the errors serialized as json.
+
 Internationalization
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