# OpenAPI Callbacks

You could create an API with a *path operation* that could trigger a request to an *external API* created by someone else (probably the same developer that would be *using* your API).

So, you could add additional data to the automatically generated schema.

For example, you could decide to read and validate the request with your own code, without using the automatic features of FastAPI with Pydantic, but you could still want to define the request in the OpenAPI schema.

You could do that with `openapi_extra`:

```Python hl_lines="20-37  39-40"

 files for and see if we can't incorporate it all into the POM. Or if we do
 have properties file (something I would like to avoid) say they don't
 contribute in any meaningful way to information in the POM. For example a
 properties file could be used the specify $ so it can be interpolated in
 <developerConnection/> but you couldn't use a properties file to specify the
 version of your project say. Anyway, food for thought to begin with.

```
.
├── app
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py
│   └── test_main.py
```

The file `main.py` would have:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/async_tests/main.py!}
```

The file `test_main.py` would have the tests for `main.py`, it could look like this now:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/async_tests/test_main.py!}
```

## Run it

You can run your tests as usual via:

# OpenAPI Webhooks

There are cases where you want to tell your API **users** that your app could call *their* app (sending a request) with some data, normally to **notify** of some type of **event**.

This means that instead of the normal process of your users sending requests to your API, it's **your API** (or your app) that could **send requests to their system** (to their API, their app).

This is normally called a **webhook**.

## Webhooks steps

This client could be a browser with a frontend, a code from someone else, an IoT device, etc.

You could need to tell the client that:

* The client doesn't have enough privileges for that operation.
* The client doesn't have access to that resource.
* The item the client was trying to access doesn't exist.
* etc.

If it was in a type annotation we could have used the vertical bar, as:

```Python
some_variable: PlaneItem | CarItem
```

But if we put that in `response_model=PlaneItem | CarItem` we would get an error, because Python would try to perform an **invalid operation** between `PlaneItem` and `CarItem` instead of interpreting that as a type annotation.

<img src="/img/tutorial/extending-openapi/image03.png">

## Change the Theme

The same way you could set the syntax highlighting theme with the key `"syntaxHighlight.theme"` (notice that it has a dot in the middle):

```Python hl_lines="3"
{!../../../docs_src/configure_swagger_ui/tutorial002.py!}
```

That configuration would change the syntax highlighting color theme:

<img src="/img/tutorial/extending-openapi/image04.png">

│   └── main.py
```

In the file `main.py` you have your **FastAPI** app:


```Python
{!../../../docs_src/app_testing/main.py!}
```

### Testing file

Then you could have a file `test_main.py` with your tests. It could live on the same Python package (the same directory with a `__init__.py` file):

``` hl_lines="5"
.
├── app
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py
│   └── test_main.py
```

```Python hl_lines="10-12"
{!../../../docs_src/response_headers/tutorial001.py!}
```

!!! note "Technical Details"
    You could also use `from starlette.responses import Response` or `from starlette.responses import JSONResponse`.