def get_invalid():
    return {"name": "invalid", "price": "foo"}


@app.get("/items/invalidnone", response_model=Item)
def get_invalid_none():
    return None


@app.get("/items/validnone", response_model=Union[Item, None])
def get_valid_none(send_none: bool = False):
    if send_none:
        return None
    else:
        return {"name": "invalid", "price": 3.2}

class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    price: Optional[float] = None
    owner_ids: Optional[List[int]] = None

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/items/invalidnone", response_model=Item)
def get_invalid_none():
    return None
```

...calling the path `/items/invalidnone` will raise an error, because `None` is not a valid type for the `response_model` declared with `Item`.