From f15d2203d75b7a648d278bf3b2c9c0dce0e32877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland van Laar <roland@micite.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:43:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Personal fix for issue: #2566

When an HTML form is used to submit data to DRF this function parse_html_list is called.
This functions can't parse a list of strings.

To work around this, post the data as a valid JSON list:

```["example string 1", "test string 2"]```

This list is parsed as JSON and returned. Thus allowing a formdata with a list to be submitted.
---
 rest_framework/utils/html.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/html.py b/rest_framework/utils/html.py
index d773952dc..e825bdbeb 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/html.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/html.py
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ def parse_html_list(dictionary, prefix=''):
     for field, value in dictionary.items():
         match = regex.match(field)
         if not match:
+            try:
+                normalized_value = json.loads(value)
+            except ValueError:
+                continue
+            if field == prefix and isinstance(normalized_value, list):
+                return normalized_value
             continue
         index, key = match.groups()
         index = int(index)