It's still possible to use `BackgroundTask` alone in FastAPI, but you have to create the object in your code and return a Starlette `Response` including it.

from fastapi import FastAPI, Response

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/headers-and-object/")
def get_headers(response: Response):
    response.headers["X-Cat-Dog"] = "alone in the world"

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/headers/")
def get_headers():
    content = {"message": "Hello World"}
    headers = {"X-Cat-Dog": "alone in the world", "Content-Language": "en-US"}

def test_path_operation():
    response = client.get("/headers-and-object/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"message": "Hello World"}

def test_path_operation():
    response = client.get("/headers/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"message": "Hello World"}
    assert response.headers["X-Cat-Dog"] == "alone in the world"