Notes on customizing BrowsableAPIRenderer. Refs #1001

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#### 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 ## 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]. 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].