Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.

///

## Order the parameters as you need { #order-the-parameters-as-you-need }

/// tip

This is probably not as important or necessary if you use `Annotated`.

///

Let's say that you want to declare the query parameter `q` as a required `str`.

And you don't need to declare anything else for that parameter, so you don't really need to use `Query`.

## Caveat { #caveat }

If you need to perform heavy background computation and you don't necessarily need it to be run by the same process (for example, you don't need to share memory, variables, etc), you might benefit from using other bigger tools like <a href="https://docs.celeryq.dev" class="external-link" target="_blank">Celery</a>.

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If you need to enforce it, use `OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict` instead of `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm`.

///

* An optional `client_id` (we don't need it for our example).
* An optional `client_secret` (we don't need it for our example).

/// info

    hashFunctions[0] = Murmur3_128HashFunction.GOOD_FAST_HASH_128;
    int seed = GOOD_FAST_HASH_SEED;
    for (int i = 1; i < hashFunctionsNeeded; i++) {
      seed += 1500450271; // a prime; shouldn't matter
      hashFunctions[i] = murmur3_128(seed);
    }
    return new ConcatenatedHashFunction(hashFunctions);
  }

  /**

This can be very useful for setting up **resources** that you need to use for the whole app, and that are **shared** among requests, and/or that you need to **clean up** afterwards. For example, a database connection pool, or loading a shared machine learning model.

## Use Case { #use-case }

### Short { #short }

It has sensible **defaults** for everything, with optional configurations everywhere. All the parameters can be fine-tuned to do what you need and to define the API you need.

But by default, it all **"just works"**.

### Validation { #validation }

* Validation for most (or all?) Python **data types**, including:
    * JSON objects (`dict`).

# Response - Change Status Code { #response-change-status-code }

You probably read before that you can set a default [Response Status Code](../tutorial/response-status-code.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

But in some cases you need to return a different status code than the default.

## Use case { #use-case }

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