From 10c254e96d90fd8f472815355499d76d1cc35b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shamoon <4887959+shamoon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:57:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Maybe handle this backwards compat

---
 src/documents/serialisers.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/documents/serialisers.py b/src/documents/serialisers.py
index 7ae75032b..0eb8c62aa 100644
--- a/src/documents/serialisers.py
+++ b/src/documents/serialisers.py
@@ -1729,6 +1729,16 @@ class PostDocumentSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
         if not custom_fields:
             return None
 
+        # Normalize single values to a list
+        if isinstance(custom_fields, int):
+            custom_fields = [custom_fields]
+        elif isinstance(custom_fields, str):
+            # try to coerce a string to an integer list
+            try:
+                custom_fields = [int(custom_fields)]
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                pass
+
         if isinstance(custom_fields, dict):
             custom_field_serializer = CustomFieldInstanceSerializer()
             normalized = {}