* @return the converted {@link Date}
     */
    public static Date toDate(final Object src, final String pattern) {
        return toDate(src, pattern, LocaleUtil.getDefault());
    }

    /**
     * Converts an object to {@link Date}.
     *
     * @param src the source object
     * @param locale the locale (must not be {@literal null})
     * @return the converted {@link Date}
     */

     */
    protected LongConversionUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given object to a {@link Long}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            the object to convert
     * @return the converted {@link Long}
     */
    public static Long toLong(final Object o) {
        return toLong(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given object to a {@link Long}.
     *
     * @param o

                "Unknown q: " + query.getClass() + " => " + query);
    }

    /**
     * Converts a TermQuery to a QueryBuilder with the given boost value.
     *
     * @param context the query context
     * @param termQuery the term query to convert
     * @param boost the boost value to apply
     * @return the converted QueryBuilder
     */

     */
    protected CalendarConversionUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Calendar}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link Calendar}
     */
    public static Calendar toCalendar(final Object o) {
        return toCalendar(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Calendar}.
     *
     * @param o

    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Float}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link Float}
     */
    public static Float toFloat(final Object o) {
        return toFloat(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Float}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern

    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Short}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link Short}
     */
    public static Short toShort(final Object o) {
        return toShort(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Short}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern

    /**
     * Converts the given object to a string.
     *
     * @param value
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@literal String}
     */
    public static String toString(final Object value) {
        return toString(value, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given object to a string.
     *
     * @param value

   *       the same.
   *   <li>The special characters ".", "-", "*", and "_" remain the same.
   *   <li>The space character " " is converted into a plus sign "+".
   *   <li>All other characters are converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding and each
   *       byte is then represented by the 3-character string "%XY", where "XY" is the two-digit,

    protected BigDecimalConversionUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link BigDecimal}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link BigDecimal}
     */
    public static BigDecimal toBigDecimal(final Object o) {
        return toBigDecimal(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link BigDecimal}.
     *
     * @param o

It would also mean that if you get data from the `Request` object directly (for example, read the body) it won't be validated, converted or documented (with OpenAPI, for the automatic API user interface) by FastAPI.

Although any other parameter declared normally (for example, the body with a Pydantic model) would still be validated, converted, annotated, etc.

But there are specific cases where it's useful to get the `Request` object.