If you want to secure your API, there are several better things you can do, for example:

* Make sure you have well defined Pydantic models for your request bodies and responses.

@app.post("/items/")
def create_item(item: Item):
    return item


@app.get("/items/")
def read_items() -> List[Item]:
    return [
        Item(
            name="Portal Gun",
            description="Device to travel through the multi-rick-verse",
        ),
        Item(name="Plumbus"),

@app.post("/items/")
def create_item(item: Item):
    return item


@app.get("/items/")
def read_items() -> list[Item]:
    return [
        Item(
            name="Portal Gun",
            description="Device to travel through the multi-rick-verse",
        ),
        Item(name="Plumbus"),

    response = client.get("/items/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == [
        {
            "name": "Portal Gun",
            "description": "Device to travel through the multi-rick-verse",
        },
        {"name": "Plumbus", "description": None},
    ]


@needs_py310
@needs_pydanticv2
def test_openapi_schema(client: TestClient) -> None:

Here are the all time **FastAPI Experts**. 🤓🤯

These are the users that have [helped others the most with questions in GitHub](help-fastapi.md#help-others-with-questions-in-github){.internal-link target=_blank} through *all time*. 🧙

{% if people %}
<div class="user-list user-list-center">
{% for user in people.experts[:50] %}

        "price": 42.0,
        "tax": 3.2
    },
    "user": {
        "username": "dave",
        "full_name": "Dave Grohl"
    }
}
```

!!! note
    Notice that even though the `item` was declared the same way as before, it is now expected to be inside of the body with a key `item`.

<img src="/img/tutorial/metadata/image02.png">

### Order of tags

The order of each tag metadata dictionary also defines the order shown in the docs UI.

For example, even though `users` would go after `items` in alphabetical order, it is shown before them, because we added their metadata as the first dictionary in the list.

## OpenAPI URL

By default, the OpenAPI schema is served at `/openapi.json`.

    response = client.get("/items/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == [
        {
            "name": "Portal Gun",
            "description": "Device to travel through the multi-rick-verse",
        },
        {"name": "Plumbus", "description": None},
    ]


@needs_py39
@needs_pydanticv2
def test_openapi_schema(client: TestClient) -> None:

I (the author, [@tiangolo](https://twitter.com/tiangolo)) will review it thoroughly and get back to you.

## Public Discussions

Please restrain from publicly discussing a potential security vulnerability. 🙊

    ```

### Return values

And they can return values or not, the values won't be used.

So, you can re-use a normal dependency (that returns a value) you already use somewhere else, and even though the value won't be used, the dependency will be executed:

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="11  16"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial006_an_py39.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.8+"