Check the in-code annotation tips above to see more specific details.

## Learn More

You can also combine `dataclasses` with other Pydantic models, inherit from them, include them in your own models, etc.

To learn more, check the <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/dataclasses/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Pydantic docs about dataclasses</a>.

## Version

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class OAuth2(SecurityBase):
    """
    This is the base class for OAuth2 authentication, an instance of it would be used
    as a dependency. All other OAuth2 classes inherit from it and customize it for
    each OAuth2 flow.

    You normally would not create a new class inheriting from it but use one of the
    existing subclasses, and maybe compose them if you want to support multiple flows.

    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

We could do better.

We can declare a `UserBase` model that serves as a base for our other models. And then we can make subclasses of that model that inherit its attributes (type declarations, validation, etc).

All the data conversion, validation, documentation, etc. will still work as normally.

INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.maybe-insiders.yml
site_name: FastAPI
site_description: FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
site_url: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
theme:
  name: material
  custom_dir: ../en/overrides
  palette:
  - media: '(prefers-color-scheme: light)'
    scheme: default
    primary: teal
    accent: amber
    toggle:
      icon: material/lightbulb
      name: Switch to dark mode

* Data conversion
* Data validation
* Automatic documentation

## Special types and validation

Apart from normal singular types like `str`, `int`, `float`, etc. you can use more complex singular types that inherit from `str`.

### `Response`

The main `Response` class, all the other responses inherit from it.

You can return it directly.

It accepts the following parameters:

* `content` - A `str` or `bytes`.
* `status_code` - An `int` HTTP status code.
* `headers` - A `dict` of strings.

```Python hl_lines="11"
{!../../../docs_src/sql_databases/sql_app/database.py!}
```

### Create a `Base` class

Now we will use the function `declarative_base()` that returns a class.

Later we will inherit from this class to create each of the database models or classes (the ORM models):

```Python hl_lines="13"
{!../../../docs_src/sql_databases/sql_app/database.py!}
```

## Create the database models

### Create an `Enum` class

Import `Enum` and create a sub-class that inherits from `str` and from `Enum`.

By inheriting from `str` the API docs will be able to know that the values must be of type `string` and will be able to render correctly.

```Python hl_lines="1"
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial001.py!}
```

`FastAPI` is a Python class that provides all the functionality for your API.

!!! note "Technical Details"
    `FastAPI` is a class that inherits directly from `Starlette`.

    You can use all the <a href="https://www.starlette.io/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Starlette</a> functionality with `FastAPI` too.

### Step 2: create a `FastAPI` "instance"