Django-rest-framework: Lists are not currently supported in HTML input.

[tagmetag]

I get this error when make serializers for a ManytoMany field:

Please help me fix this.

[xordoquy]

Nested serializers don't work with the browsable API.
Use the json content type instead.

[krdeepak]

Same issue comes when using django postgres ArrayField. Is there any solution for it? Even changing the field to comma separated string using drf ListField does not solve this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48330135/django-rest-framework-serialize-arrayfield-as-string/48344897

[rpkilby]

Hi @krdeepak - the underlying issue is that lists are not well represented by HTML form inputs. I would recommend switching over to the JSON input instead.

As to the SO article, I think if you were to inherit CharField, this might work. e.g.,

class StringArrayField(CharField, ListField):
    ...

[jsinhSolanki]

@krdeepak Did you find any real solution to this?

[krdeepak]

No, I just use raw json input when needed.

[jsinhSolanki]

@krdeepak for quick response.

[malik-tillman]

Why does it work in admin?

[juan-kabbali]

This feature could be a nice enhancement for future releases.

[lalitvasoya]

No, I just use raw json input when needed.

when i want to upload image at that time raw json could not work is there any idea about it

[chaitanya2903]

@lalitvasoya You can set the ListField parameter required = False and then make a PUT request to update the same object.