In some cases, you might still have to use Pydantic's version of `dataclasses`. For example, if you have errors with the automatically generated API documentation.

In that case, you can simply swap the standard `dataclasses` with `pydantic.dataclasses`, which is a drop-in replacement:

{* ../../docs_src/dataclasses_/tutorial003_py310.py hl[1,4,7:10,13:16,22:24,27] *}

1. We still import `field` from standard `dataclasses`.

**FastAPI** is already being used in production in many applications and systems. And the test coverage is kept at 100%. But its development is still moving quickly.

New features are added frequently, bugs are fixed regularly, and the code is still continuously improving.

app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)


@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
async def read_items(item_id: str):
    return items[item_id]


def test_read_items():
    # Before the lifespan starts, "items" is still empty
    assert items == {}

    with TestClient(app) as client:
        # Inside the "with TestClient" block, the lifespan starts and items added

app = FastAPI(
    servers=[
        {"url": "/", "description": "Default, relative server"},
        {
            "url": "http://staging.localhost.tiangolo.com:8000",
            "description": "Staging but actually localhost still",
        },
        {"url": "https://prod.example.com"},
    ]
)


@app.get("/foo")
def foo():
    return {"message": "Hello World"}


client = TestClient(app)


def test_app():

## Why is Erasure Code useful?

For example, imagine that you want to return an HTTP status code of "OK" `200` by default.

But if the data didn't exist, you want to create it, and return an HTTP status code of "CREATED" `201`.

But you still want to be able to filter and convert the data you return with a `response_model`.

For those cases, you can use a `Response` parameter.

## Use a `Response` parameter { #use-a-response-parameter }

#
# Separately, this extension also adds a 'golookup' command that
# returns the hash of a specific reference, like 'default' or a tag.
# And golookup of a hash confirms that it still exists on the server.
# We can use that to revalidate that specific versions still exist and
# have the same meaning they did the last time we checked.
#
# Usage:
#
#	hg --config "extensions.goreposum=$GOROOT/lib/hg/goreposum.py" goreposum REPOURL

Hiding your documentation user interfaces in production *shouldn't* be the way to protect your API.

That doesn't add any extra security to your API, the *path operations* will still be available where they are.

If there's a security flaw in your code, it will still exist.

When you return a `Response` directly its data is not validated, converted (serialized), or documented automatically.

But you can still document it as described in [Additional Responses in OpenAPI](additional-responses.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

test.db
log.txt
Pipfile.lock
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docs_build
site_build
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docs.zip
archive.zip

# vim temporary files
*~
.*.sw?
.cache

# macOS
.DS_Store

# Ignore while the setup still depends on requirements.txt files
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