In this section we'll see how to use other middlewares.

## Adding ASGI middlewares

As **FastAPI** is based on Starlette and implements the <abbr title="Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface">ASGI</abbr> specification, you can use any ASGI middleware.

A middleware doesn't have to be made for FastAPI or Starlette to work, as long as it follows the ASGI spec.

### OpenAPI

**FastAPI** generates a "schema" with all your API using the **OpenAPI** standard for defining APIs.

#### "Schema"

A "schema" is a definition or description of something. Not the code that implements it, but just an abstract description.

#### API "schema"

    * If you didn't use FastAPI and used Starlette directly (or another tool, like Sanic, Flask, Responder, etc) you would have to implement all the data validation and serialization yourself. So, your final application would still have the same overhead as if it was built using FastAPI. And in many cases, this data validation and serialization is the biggest amount of code written in...

description = """
ChimichangApp API helps you do awesome stuff. 🚀

## Items

You can **read items**.

## Users

You will be able to:

* **Create users** (_not implemented_).
* **Read users** (_not implemented_).
"""

app = FastAPI(
    title="ChimichangApp",
    description=description,
    summary="Deadpool's favorite app. Nuff said.",
    version="0.0.1",

    **FastAPI** provee `starlette.responses` como `fastapi.responses`, simplemente como una conveniencia para ti, el desarrollador. Pero la mayoría de las respuestas disponibles vienen directamente de Starlette.

## Devolviendo una `Response` personalizada

    * Si no usaras FastAPI y usaras Starlette directamente (u otra herramienta, como Sanic, Flask, Responder, etc.), tendrías que implementar toda la validación y serialización de datos tu mismo. Por lo tanto, tu aplicación final seguirá teniendo la misma sobrecarga que si se hubiera creado con FastAPI. Y en muchos casos, esta validación y serialización de datos constituye la mayor cantidad...

### <a href="https://www.hug.rest/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Hug</a>

Hug was one of the first frameworks to implement the declaration of API parameter types using Python type hints. This was a great idea that inspired other tools to do the same.

## À propos de Starlette

Vous ne devriez pas épingler la version de `starlette`.

Différentes versions de **FastAPI** utiliseront une version spécifique plus récente de Starlette.

Ainsi, vous pouvez simplement laisser **FastAPI** utiliser la bonne version de Starlette.

## À propos de Pydantic

Pydantic inclut des tests pour **FastAPI** avec ses propres tests, ainsi les nouvelles versions de Pydantic (au-dessus

httpx.post(callback_url, json={"description": "Invoice paid", "paid": True})
```

But possibly the most important part of the callback is making sure that your API user (the external developer) implements the *external API* correctly, according to the data that *your API* is going to send in the request body of the callback, etc.

    * If the token contains `foobar`, the content of the `Authorization` header would be: `Bearer foobar`.

## **FastAPI**'s `OAuth2PasswordBearer`

**FastAPI** provides several tools, at different levels of abstraction, to implement these security features.

In this example we are going to use **OAuth2**, with the **Password** flow, using a **Bearer** token. We do that using the `OAuth2PasswordBearer` class.

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