final int total = JsonPath.from(response).getInt("response.total");
        final List<Map<String, String>> dicts = JsonPath.from(response).getList("response.settings");
        final int status = JsonPath.from(response).getInt("response.status");
        assertEquals(total, dicts.size());
        assertEquals(0, status);
    }

    @Override
    protected void tearDown() {
        // do nothing
    }

        final String response = checkMethodBase(searchBody).get("/api/admin/dict").asString();
        final List<Map<String, String>> dicts = JsonPath.from(response).getList("response.settings");

        for (Map<String, String> item : dicts) {
            assertTrue(item.containsKey("id"));
            assertTrue(item.containsKey("type"));
            if (getDictType().equals(item.get("type"))) {

But you don't have to worry about them either, incoming dicts are converted automatically and your output is converted automatically to JSON too.

## Bodies of arbitrary `dict`s { #bodies-of-arbitrary-dicts }

You can also declare a body as a `dict` with keys of some type and values of some other type.

### Fixes

* 🐛 Fix include/exclude for dicts in `jsonable_encoder`. PR [#2016](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2016) by [@Rubikoid](https://github.com/Rubikoid).