From 0577a75d4748525ccf66aea2dc1346f5e7236398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Lempereur <brett.lempereur@digitalbridge.eu>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:50:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] DictField returns empty value if no data was specified in a
 form request

---
 rest_framework/fields.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 70c210c16..b84bca015 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ class DictField(Field):
         # We override the default field access in order to support
         # dictionaries in HTML forms.
         if html.is_html_input(dictionary):
-            return html.parse_html_dict(dictionary, prefix=self.field_name)
+            return html.parse_html_dict(dictionary, prefix=self.field_name, default=empty)
         return dictionary.get(self.field_name, empty)
 
     def to_internal_value(self, data):