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Note on setting ContentType. Fixes #589. Refs #586.

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The set of valid parsers for a view is always defined as a list of classes. When either `request.DATA` or `request.FILES` is accessed, REST framework will examine the `Content-Type` header on the incoming request, and determine which parser to use to parse the request content.
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**Note**: When developing client applications always remember to make sure you're setting the `Content-Type` header when sending data in an HTTP request.
If you don't set the content type, most clients will default to using `'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'`, which may not be what you wanted.
As an example, if you are sending `json` encoded data using jQuery with the [.ajax() method][jquery-ajax], you should make sure to include the `contentType: 'application/json'` setting.
If you're working with the API using the command line tool `curl`, you can use the `-H` flag to include a `ContentType` header. For example, to set the content type to `json` use `-H 'content-type: application/json'`.
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## Setting the parsers
The default set of parsers may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES` setting. For example, the following settings would allow requests with `YAML` content.
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[MessagePack][messagepack] is a fast, efficient binary serialization format. [Juan Riaza][juanriaza] maintains the [djangorestframework-msgpack][djangorestframework-msgpack] package which provides MessagePack renderer and parser support for REST framework.
[jquery-ajax]: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
[cite]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/dxI4qVzrBY4/discussion
[messagepack]: https://github.com/juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack
[juanriaza]: https://github.com/juanriaza