"""
        ),
    ] = None,
    media_type: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc(
            """
            The media type of this parameter field. Changing it would affect the
            generated OpenAPI, but currently it doesn't affect the parsing of the data.
            """
        ),
    ] = "application/json",

In versions lower than `0.65.2`, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the `content-type` header sent was not set to `application/json` or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. `application/geo+json`).

So, a request with a content type of `text/plain` containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be extracted.