# OpenAPI

There are several utilities to handle OpenAPI.

    All the security utilities that integrate with OpenAPI (and the automatic API docs) inherit from `SecurityBase`, that's how **FastAPI** can know how to integrate them in OpenAPI.

## What it does

# OpenAPI `docs`

Utilities to handle OpenAPI automatic UI documentation, including Swagger UI (by default at `/docs`) and ReDoc (by default at `/redoc`).

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_swagger_ui_html

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_redoc_html

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_swagger_ui_oauth2_redirect_html

!!! info
    In this example we use invented custom headers `X-Key` and `X-Token`.

    But in real cases, when implementing security, you would get more benefits from using the integrated [Security utilities (the next chapter)](../security/index.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Dependencies errors and return values

You can use the same dependency *functions* you use normally.

### Dependency requirements

    The most complex problem is building an authentication/authorization provider like those, but **FastAPI** gives you the tools to do it easily, while doing the heavy lifting for you.

## **FastAPI** utilities

FastAPI provides several tools for each of these security schemes in the `fastapi.security` module that simplify using these security mechanisms.

### In production

In your production system, you probably have a frontend created with a modern framework like React, Vue.js or Angular.

And to communicate using WebSockets with your backend you would probably use your frontend's utilities.

Or you might have a native mobile application that communicates with your WebSocket backend directly, in native code.

Or you might have any other way to communicate with the WebSocket endpoint.

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# Templates

You can use any template engine you want with **FastAPI**.

A common choice is Jinja2, the same one used by Flask and other tools.

There are utilities to configure it easily that you can use directly in your **FastAPI** application (provided by Starlette).

## Install dependencies

Install `jinja2`:

<div class="termy">

```console
$ pip install jinja2

---> 100%
```

</div>

```

## Install custom exception handlers

You can add custom exception handlers with <a href="https://www.starlette.io/exceptions/" class="external-link" target="_blank">the same exception utilities from Starlette</a>.

Let's say you have a custom exception `UnicornException` that you (or a library you use) might `raise`.

And you want to handle this exception globally with FastAPI.