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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index b627c930..b434efe9 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -217,6 +217,24 @@ Renders data into HTML for the Browsable API. This renderer will determine whic **.charset**: `utf-8` +#### Customizing BrowsableAPIRenderer + +By default the response content will be rendered with the highest priority renderer apart from `BrowseableAPIRenderer`. If you need to customize this behavior, for example to use HTML as the default return format, but use JSON in the browsable API, you can do so by overriding the `get_default_renderer()` method. For example: + + class CustomBrowsableAPIRenderer(BrowsableAPIRenderer): + def get_default_renderer(self, view): + return JSONRenderer() + +## MultiPartRenderer + +This renderer is used for rendering HTML multipart form data. **It is not suitable as a response renderer**, but is instead used for creating test requests, using REST framework's [test client and test request factory][testing]. + +**.media_type**: `multipart/form-data; boundary=BoUnDaRyStRiNg` + +**.format**: `'.multipart'` + +**.charset**: `utf-8` + --- # Custom renderers @@ -373,6 +391,7 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily [rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt [cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ [cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md +[testing]: testing.md [HATEOAS]: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas [quote]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven [application/vnd.github+json]: http://developer.github.com/v3/media/ |