High-Performance Web Apps with FastAPI: The Asynchronous Web Framework Based on Modern Python

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M. LathkarHigh-Performance Web Apps with FastAPIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9178-8_5

5. Response

Malhar Lathkar¹  

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Nanded, Maharashtra, India

 

Any web application returns an HTTP response to the client. The operation function in a FastAPI app returns a JSON response by default. In this chapter, we shall learn how we can manipulate the response to handle different requirements.

In this chapter, the following points will be discussed:

• Response model

• Cookies

• Headers

• Response status code

• Response types

The FastAPI operation function JSONifies Python’s primary types, that is, numbers, string, list, dict, etc., as its response. It can also return an object of ...