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    migration-operations
    models/index
    paginator
+   parsers
    request-response
    schema-editor
    settings
diff --git a/docs/ref/parsers.txt b/docs/ref/parsers.txt
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+============
+HTTP Parsers
+============
+
+.. module:: django.http.parsers
+    :synopsis: Classes dealing with parsing HTTP requests.
+
+# TODO See about stitching this back into ``request-response.txt``
+
+Parsers
+=======
+
+.. class:: BaseParser
+
+    .. attribute:: media_type
+
+    The media types this class can accept. Example ``application/json``.
+
+    .. method:: can_handle(media_type)
+
+    This method accepts a media type and returns true if the parser can parse
+    this type. By default, this method compares the string provided to
+    :attr:`.media_type` and returns ``True`` if it's an exact match.
+
+    You may wish to customize this method if your custom parser can accept
+    multiple types.
+
+    .. method:: BaseParser.parse(request)
+
+    This method parses the requests body and returns a two-tuple being the
+    parsed ``data`` and ``FILES``. For parsers which do not return ``FILES`` an
+    empty ``MultiValueDict`` is returned.
+
+All parsers should inherit from the ``BaseParser`` class. This class has the
+following attributes and methods
+
+Provided parsers
+================
+
+Django provides the following parsers.
+
+.. class:: FormParser
+
+    .. attribute:: media_type
+
+        ``"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"``
+
+Parses HTML form content (). The ``parse()`` method returns a
+``QueryDict`` for ``data`` and an empty ``MultiValueDict`` for ``FILES``.
+
+.. class:: MultiPartParser
+
+    .. attribute:: media_type
+
+      ``"multipart/form-data"``
+
+Parses multipart form content and supports file uploads. The method returns
+a ``QueryDict`` for ``data`` and an ``MultiValueDict`` for ``FILES``.