## Documentation Summary and Description - OpenAPI { #documentation-summary-and-description-openapi }

To add a summary and description to your *path operations*, and show them in the docs UI, read the docs for [Tutorial - Path Operation Configurations - Summary and Description](../tutorial/path-operation-configuration.md#summary-and-description){.internal-link target=_blank}.

| Parameter | Type | Description |
|------------|------|-------------|
| `title` | `str` | The title of the API. |
| `summary` | `str` | A short summary of the API. <small>Available since OpenAPI 3.1.0, FastAPI 0.99.0.</small> |
| `description` | `str` | A short description of the API. It can use Markdown. |

**FastAPI** supports that the same way as with plain strings:

{* ../../docs_src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial002b.py hl[1,8:10,13,18] *}

## Summary and description { #summary-and-description }

You can add a `summary` and `description`:

{* ../../docs_src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial003_py310.py hl[18:19] *}

## Description from docstring { #description-from-docstring }

        {
            "type": "extra_forbidden",
            "loc": ["query", "tool"],
            "msg": "Extra inputs are not permitted",
            "input": "plumbus"
        }
    ]
}
```

## Summary { #summary }

You can use **Pydantic models** to declare **query parameters** in **FastAPI**. 😎

/// tip

* `summary`: A short summary of the API.
* `description`: The description of your API, this can include markdown and will be shown in the docs.
* `routes`: A list of routes, these are each of the registered *path operations*. They are taken from `app.routes`.

/// info

The parameter `summary` is available in OpenAPI 3.1.0 and above, supported by FastAPI 0.99.0 and above.

/// warning

Before setting `convert_underscores` to `False`, bear in mind that some HTTP proxies and servers disallow the usage of headers with underscores.

///

## Summary { #summary }

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
def read_item(item_id: int, q: Union[str, None] = None):
    return {"item_id": item_id, "q": q}
```

<details markdown="1">
<summary>Або використайте <code>async def</code>...</summary>

Якщо ваш код використовує `async` / `await`, скористайтеся `async def`:

```Python hl_lines="9  14"
from typing import Union

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

            "loc": ["cookie", "santa_tracker"],
            "msg": "Extra inputs are not permitted",
            "input": "good-list-please",
        }
    ]
}
```

## Summary { #summary }

			apiErr.Code, apiErr.Description)
	}
)

// healSequenceStatus - accumulated status of the heal sequence
type healSequenceStatus struct {
	// summary and detail for failures
	Summary       healStatusSummary `json:"Summary"`
	FailureDetail string            `json:"Detail,omitempty"`
	StartTime     time.Time         `json:"StartTime"`

	// settings for the heal sequence

To solve that, FastAPI `0.103.0` **added support** for declaring the same old **OpenAPI-specific** `examples` field with the new parameter `openapi_examples`. 🤓

### Summary { #summary }

I used to say I didn't like history that much... and look at me now giving "tech history" lessons. 😅