price: float
    tax: Union[float, None] = None
    tags: List[str] = []


@app.post("/items/")
async def create_item(item: Item) -> Item:
    return item


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items() -> List[Item]:
    return [
        Item(name="Portal Gun", price=42.0),
        Item(name="Plumbus", price=32.0),

app = FastAPI()

app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")


templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")


@app.get("/items/{id}", response_class=HTMLResponse)
async def read_item(request: Request, id: str):
    return templates.TemplateResponse(
        request=request, name="item.html", context={"id": id}

# Advanced Middleware

In the main tutorial you read how to add [Custom Middleware](../tutorial/middleware.md){.internal-link target=_blank} to your application.

And then you also read how to handle [CORS with the `CORSMiddleware`](../tutorial/cors.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

In this section we'll see how to use other middlewares.

## Adding ASGI middlewares

    def __call__(self, q: str = ""):
        if q:
            return self.fixed_content in q
        return False


checker = FixedContentQueryChecker("bar")


@app.get("/query-checker/")
async def read_query_check(fixed_content_included: bool = Depends(checker)):

from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

app = FastAPI()

router = APIRouter()


@router.get("/users/{id}")
def read_user(segment: str, id: str):
    return {"segment": segment, "id": id}


app.include_router(router, prefix="/{segment}")


client = TestClient(app)


def test_get():
    response = client.get("/seg/users/foo")

    tags: list[str] = []


@app.post("/items/", response_model=Item)
async def create_item(item: Item) -> Any:
    return item


@app.get("/items/", response_model=list[Item])
async def read_items() -> Any:
    return [
        {"name": "Portal Gun", "price": 42.0},
        {"name": "Plumbus", "price": 32.0},

    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"message": "Message sent"}
    with open("./log.txt") as f:

If something seems interesting and useful to your project, go ahead and check it, but otherwise, you might probably just skip them.

!!! tip

from typing import Union

from fastapi import FastAPI, Query

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(
    q: Union[str, None] = Query(
        default=None,
        alias="item-query",
        title="Query string",
        description="Query string for the items to search in the database that have a good match",
        min_length=3,
        max_length=50,
        pattern="^fixedquery$",
        deprecated=True,

    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"message": "Message sent"}
    with open("./log.txt") as f: