But in some cases you need to return a different status code than the default.

## Use case

For example, imagine that you want to return an HTTP status code of "OK" `200` by default.

But if the data didn't exist, you want to create it, and return an HTTP status code of "CREATED" `201`.

But you still want to be able to filter and convert the data you return with a `response_model`.

For those cases, you can use a `Response` parameter.

This means that you can send only the data that you want to update, leaving the rest intact.

!!! note
    `PATCH` is less commonly used and known than `PUT`.

    And many teams use only `PUT`, even for partial updates.

    You are **free** to use them however you want, **FastAPI** doesn't impose any restrictions.

Nevertheless, you would probably also want to have something outside making sure to **restart Gunicorn** if necessary, and also to **run it on startup**, etc.

## Uvicorn with Workers

Uvicorn also has an option to start and run several **worker processes**.

                is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
                be `None`.

                This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

                It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
                provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OpenID
                Connect or in a cookie).
                """

```Python hl_lines="6"
{!../../../docs_src/path_operation_advanced_configuration/tutorial001.py!}
```

### Using the *path operation function* name as the operationId

If you want to use your APIs' function names as `operationId`s, you can iterate over all of them and override each *path operation's* `operation_id` using their `APIRoute.name`.

You should do it after adding all your *path operations*.

# `HTTPConnection` class

When you want to define dependencies that should be compatible with both HTTP and WebSockets, you can define a parameter that takes an `HTTPConnection` instead of a `Request` or a `WebSocket`.

You can import it from `fastapi.requests`:

```python
from fastapi.requests import HTTPConnection
```

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    But when the form includes files, it is encoded as `multipart/form-data`. You'll read about handling files in the next chapter.

    The `Union` in `Union[str, None]` is not used by FastAPI, but will allow your editor to give you better support and detect errors.

## Without Pydantic