Added TextField to recognized fields

rest_framework/fields.py

@@ -409,6 +409,13 @@ class BooleanField(WritableField):
             return False
         raise ValidationError(self.error_messages['invalid'] % value)
 
+class TextField(WritableField):
+    type_name = 'TextField'
+
+    def from_native(self, value):
+        if isinstance(value, basestring) or value is None:
+            return value
+        return smart_unicode(value)
 
 class CharField(WritableField):
     type_name = 'CharField'

rest_framework/serializers.py

@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ class ModelSerializer(Serializer):
             models.DateField: DateField,
             models.EmailField: EmailField,
             models.CharField: CharField,
+			models.TextField: TextField,
             models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField: CharField,
             models.BooleanField: BooleanField,
         }