# Using the Request Directly { #using-the-request-directly }

Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.

  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // suite
  @AndroidIncompatible // test-suite builders
  public static Test suite() {
    TestSuite suite = new TestSuite();

    suite.addTest(
        SetTestSuiteBuilder.using(
                new TestStringSetGenerator() {
                  @Override
                  protected Set<String> create(String[] elements) {
                    return union(emptySet(), emptySet());
                  }

   * separator between each, to {@code appendable}.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public <A extends Appendable> A appendTo(A appendable, Iterable<?> parts) throws IOException {
    return appendTo(appendable, parts.iterator());
  }

  /**
   * Appends the string representation of each of {@code parts}, using the previously configured

This section describes how to generate a self-signed certificate using various tools:

* 3.1 [Use certgen to Generate a Certificate](#using-go)
* 3.2 [Use OpenSSL to Generate a Certificate](#using-open-ssl)
* 3.3 [Use OpenSSL (with IP address) to Generate a Certificate](#using-open-ssl-with-ip)
* 3.4 [Use GnuTLS (for Windows) to Generate a Certificate](#using-gnu-tls)

**Note:**

		builder.WriteString("JOIN ")
		builder.WriteQuoted(join.Table)

		if len(join.ON.Exprs) > 0 {
			builder.WriteString(" ON ")
			join.ON.Build(builder)
		} else if len(join.Using) > 0 {
			builder.WriteString(" USING (")
			for idx, c := range join.Using {
				if idx > 0 {
					builder.WriteByte(',')
				}
				builder.WriteQuoted(c)
			}
			builder.WriteByte(')')
		}
	}

   * separator between each, to {@code appendable}.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public <A extends Appendable> A appendTo(A appendable, Iterable<?> parts) throws IOException {
    return appendTo(appendable, parts.iterator());
  }

  /**
   * Appends the string representation of each of {@code parts}, using the previously configured

# Using Dataclasses { #using-dataclasses }

FastAPI is built on top of **Pydantic**, and I have been showing you how to use Pydantic models to declare requests and responses.

But FastAPI also supports using <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">`dataclasses`</a> the same way:

{* ../../docs_src/dataclasses/tutorial001.py hl[1,7:12,19:20] *}

  public static Test suite() {
    TestSuite suite = new TestSuite();

    suite.addTest(transformSuite());
    suite.addTest(filterSuite());

    suite.addTest(
        ListMultimapTestSuiteBuilder.using(
                new TestStringListMultimapGenerator() {
                  @Override
                  protected ListMultimap<String, String> create(Entry<String, String>[] entries) {

        fail("Encoding $component $codePoint using $encoding")
      }
      return
    }

    // Check that the URI and HttpURL have the exact same escaping.
    if (toAndFromUri != httpUrl) {
      fail("Encoding $component $codePoint using $encoding")
    }
    if (uri.toString() != httpUrl.toString()) {
      fail("Encoding $component $codePoint using $encoding")
    }
  }

    // Not testing rowKeySet() or columnKeySet() of Table.transformValues()
    // since the transformation doesn't affect the row and column key sets.

    suite.addTest(
        SetTestSuiteBuilder.using(
                new TestStringSetGenerator() {
                  @Override
                  protected Set<String> create(String[] elements) {
                    Table<String, Integer, Character> table =