django-rest-framework - autogenerate form in browsable API?
django-models, django-rest-framework, forms, python-2.7
Solution
If you're using the generic class-based-views you'll get that for free. Try the live tutorial at http://restframework.herokuapp.com logging in as one of the users, so that you can create some snippets. eg user: 'max', password: 'max'.
Any views subclassing `GenericAPIView` and setting a `serializer_class` will get that behavior, as REST framework can determine what the form should look like.
For example:
(Note the form input at the bottom of the screen shot)
If you're just working from `APIView` you'll get the generic content input (such as json), like the once you've included a screenshot of, which is also useful, but not quite as convenient as the forms.
Problem
Not sure if i'm using the right vocabulary. In the browsable api that comes for free with django-rest-framework, I was wondering if there was a way to autogenerate a form similar to how we define ModelForms. This would allow us to more easily test input to the API in some cases. I'm currently using ModelSerializers and the generic view APIView in case that makes a difference. I have read the documentation (several times at this point) but didn't see it mentioned anywhere.