## Additional Features

The main [Tutorial - User Guide](../tutorial/index.md){.internal-link target=_blank} should be enough to give you a tour through all the main features of **FastAPI**.

In the next sections you will see other options, configurations, and additional features.

!!! tip
    The next sections are **not necessarily "advanced"**.

    And it's possible that for your use case, the solution is in one of them.

## Return a `Response`

In fact, you can return any `Response` or any sub-class of it.

!!! tip
    `JSONResponse` itself is a sub-class of `Response`.

And when you return a `Response`, **FastAPI** will pass it directly.

It won't do any data conversion with Pydantic models, it won't convert the contents to any type, etc.

                Security scheme name.

                It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
                """
            ),
        ] = None,
        description: Annotated[
            Optional[str],
            Doc(
                """
                Security scheme description.

                It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).

You can define logic (code) that should be executed before the application **starts up**. This means that this code will be executed **once**, **before** the application **starts receiving requests**.

The same way, you can define logic (code) that should be executed when the application is **shutting down**. In this case, this code will be executed **once**, **after** having handled possibly **many requests**.

<img src="/img/tutorial/separate-openapi-schemas/image02.png">
</div>

This means that it will **always have a value**, it's just that sometimes the value could be `None` (or `null` in JSON).

That means that, clients using your API don't have to check if the value exists or not, they can **assume the field will always be there**, but just that in some cases it will have the default value of `None`.

```Python hl_lines="5-7  13-18  24"
{!../../../docs_src/handling_errors/tutorial003.py!}
```

Here, if you request `/unicorns/yolo`, the *path operation* will `raise` a `UnicornException`.

But it will be handled by the `unicorn_exception_handler`.

So, you will receive a clean error, with an HTTP status code of `418` and a JSON content of:

```JSON
{"message": "Oops! yolo did something. There goes a rainbow..."}
```

    If you are starting with **FastAPI**, you might not need this.

You can declare additional responses, with additional status codes, media types, descriptions, etc.

Those additional responses will be included in the OpenAPI schema, so they will also appear in the API docs.

But for those additional responses you have to make sure you return a `Response` like `JSONResponse` directly, with your status code and content.

And then you can return any object you need, as you normally would (a `dict`, a database model, etc).

And if you declared a `response_model`, it will still be used to filter and convert the object you returned.

**FastAPI** will use that *temporal* response to extract the cookies (also headers and status code), and will put them in the final response that contains the value you returned, filtered by any `response_model`.

{!../../../docs_src/wsgi/tutorial001.py!}
```

## Check it

Now, every request under the path `/v1/` will be handled by the Flask application.

And the rest will be handled by **FastAPI**.

If you run it and go to <a href="http://localhost:8000/v1/" class="external-link" target="_blank">http://localhost:8000/v1/</a> you will see the response from Flask:

```txt
Hello, World from Flask!
```

    Also, before that, in previous versions, the `request` object was passed as part of the key-value pairs in the context for Jinja2.

!!! tip
    By declaring `response_class=HTMLResponse` the docs UI will be able to know that the response will be HTML.

!!! note "Technical Details"
    You could also use `from starlette.templating import Jinja2Templates`.