# Using the Request Directly { #using-the-request-directly }

Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.

package org.apache.maven.cling.logging;

import org.apache.maven.logging.ProjectBuildLogAppender;
import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Adapt an SLF4J logger to a Plexus logger, ignoring Plexus logger API parts that are not classical and
 * probably not really used.
 *
 * @since 3.1.0
 */
public class Slf4jLogger implements Logger {

    private final org.slf4j.Logger logger;
    private final String projectId;

	AmzFwdHeaderObjectLockRetainUntil = "x-amz-fwd-header-x-amz-object-lock-retain-until-date"
	AmzFwdHeaderMPPartsCount          = "x-amz-fwd-header-x-amz-mp-parts-count"
	AmzFwdHeaderReplicationStatus     = "x-amz-fwd-header-x-amz-replication-status"
	AmzFwdHeaderSSE                   = "x-amz-fwd-header-x-amz-server-side-encryption"

linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require,
such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those
subprograms and other parts of the work.

  The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users
can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding
Source.

  The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that
same work.

  2. Basic Permissions.

### The callback path expression { #the-callback-path-expression }

The callback *path* can have an <a href="https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.1.0.md#key-expression" class="external-link" target="_blank">OpenAPI 3 expression</a> that can contain parts of the original request sent to *your API*.

     * @param root the root of the graph.
     */
    public ObjectBasedValueSource(Object root) {
        super(true);
        this.root = root;
    }

    /**
     * <p>Split the expression into parts, tokenized on the dot ('.') character. Then,
     * starting at the root object contained in this value source, apply each part
     * to the object graph below this root, using either 'getXXX()' or 'isXXX()'

    }

    /**
     * Masks sensitive values in a string for security purposes.
     *
     * @param value the string potentially containing sensitive information
     * @return the string with sensitive parts masked, or the original string if masking is disabled
     */
    public static String maskSecretValue(final String value) {
        if (MASK_SECRET_VALUE && value != null) {

///

## Returning a custom `Response` { #returning-a-custom-response }

The example above shows all the parts you need, but it's not very useful yet, as you could have just returned the `item` directly, and **FastAPI** would put it in a `JSONResponse` for you, converting it to a `dict`, etc. All that by default.

  private static File root() {
    return File.listRoots()[0];
  }

  /** Returns a {@code File} object for the given path parts. */
  private static File file(String first, String... more) {
    return file(new File(first), more);
  }

  /** Returns a {@code File} object for the given path parts. */
  private static File file(File first, String... more) {
    // not very efficient, but should definitely be correct

	// version that created this version of the object.
	WrittenByVersion uint64 `msg:"wv"`

	// File metadata
	Metadata map[string]string `msg:"meta"`

	// All the parts per object.
	Parts []ObjectPartInfo `msg:"parts"`

	// Erasure info for all objects.
	Erasure ErasureInfo `msg:"ei"`

	MarkDeleted      bool             `msg:"md"` // mark this version as deleted