But you can return a `JSONResponse` directly from your *path operations*.

It might be useful, for example, to return custom headers or cookies.

## Return a `Response` { #return-a-response }

In fact, you can return any `Response` or any sub-class of it.

/// tip

`JSONResponse` itself is a sub-class of `Response`.

///

Create a response as described in [Return a Response Directly](response-directly.md){.internal-link target=_blank} and pass the headers as an additional parameter:

{* ../../docs_src/response_headers/tutorial001.py hl[10:12] *}

/// note | Technical Details

You could also use `from starlette.responses import Response` or `from starlette.responses import JSONResponse`.

And tools will also be happy because both `RedirectResponse` and `JSONResponse` are subclasses of `Response`, so the type annotation is correct.

### Annotate a Response Subclass { #annotate-a-response-subclass }

You can also use a subclass of `Response` in the type annotation:

{* ../../docs_src/response_model/tutorial003_03.py hl[8:9] *}

# Custom Response - HTML, Stream, File, others { #custom-response-html-stream-file-others }

By default, **FastAPI** will return the responses using `JSONResponse`.

You can override it by returning a `Response` directly as seen in [Return a Response directly](response-directly.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

/// note | Technical Details

You could also use `from starlette.responses import Response` or `from starlette.responses import JSONResponse`.

**FastAPI** provides the same `starlette.responses` as `fastapi.responses` just as a convenience for you, the developer. But most of the available responses come directly from Starlette.

///

It will:

* Return that status code in the response.
* Document it as such in the OpenAPI schema (and so, in the user interfaces):

<img src="/img/tutorial/response-status-code/image01.png">

/// note

Some response codes (see the next section) indicate that the response does not have a body.

FastAPI knows this, and will produce OpenAPI docs that state there is no response body.

///

For those cases, you can use a `Response` parameter.

## Use a `Response` parameter { #use-a-response-parameter }

You can declare a parameter of type `Response` in your *path operation function* (as you can do for cookies and headers).

And then you can set the `status_code` in that *temporal* response object.

{* ../../docs_src/response_change_status_code/tutorial001.py hl[1,9,12] *}

* <a href="https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.1.0.md#response-object" class="external-link" target="_blank">OpenAPI Response Object</a>, you can include anything from this directly in each response inside your `responses` parameter. Including `description`, `headers`, `content` (inside...

        }

        String response2Body;
        try (Response response2 = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
          if (!response2.isSuccessful()) throw new IOException("Unexpected code " + response2);

          response2Body = response2.body().string();
          System.out.println("Response 2 response:          " + response2);

	// execute the http request to fetch object.
	response, err = s.client.Do(request)
	c.Assert(err, nil)
	// assert the http response status code.
	c.Assert(response.StatusCode, http.StatusOK)

	var buffer bytes.Buffer
	// extract the body of the response.
	responseBody, err := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
	c.Assert(err, nil)
	// assert the http response body content.