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Note AutoSchema limitations on bare APIView (#5649)

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AutoSchema uses GenericAPIView hooks to introspect. If these are not present it’s results will be limited. Note this.

Closes #5121
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@ -167,6 +167,18 @@ appropriate Core API `Link` object for the view, request method and path:
(In compiling the schema, `SchemaGenerator` calls `view.schema.get_link()` for
each view, allowed method and path.)
---
**Note**: For basic `APIView` subclasses, default introspection is essentially
limited to the URL kwarg path parameters. For `GenericAPIView`
subclasses, which includes all the provided class based views, `AutoSchema` will
attempt to introspect serialiser, pagination and filter fields, as well as
provide richer path field descriptions. (The key hooks here are the relevant
`GenericAPIView` attributes and methods: `get_serializer`, `pagination_class`,
`filter_backends` and so on.)
---
To customise the `Link` generation you may:
* Instantiate `AutoSchema` on your view with the `manual_fields` kwarg: