# Custom Response - HTML, Stream, File, others { #custom-response-html-stream-file-others }

By default, **FastAPI** will return JSON responses.

You can override it by returning a `Response` directly as seen in [Return a Response directly](response-directly.md).

async def dep0(response: Response):
    response.headers["x-level0"] = "True"


async def dep1(response: Response):
    response.headers["x-level1"] = "True"


async def dep2(response: Response):
    response.headers["x-level2"] = "True"


async def dep3(response: Response):
    response.headers["x-level3"] = "True"


async def dep4(response: Response):

    assert "redoc@2" in response.text


def test_enum_status_code_response():
    response = client.get("/enum-status-code")
    assert response.status_code == 201, response.text
    assert response.json() == "foo bar"


def test_openapi_schema():
    response = client.get("/openapi.json")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text

from fastapi.responses import FileResponse
from pydantic import BaseModel


class Item(BaseModel):
    id: str
    value: str


responses = {
    404: {"description": "Item not found"},
    302: {"description": "The item was moved"},
    403: {"description": "Not enough privileges"},
}


app = FastAPI()


@app.get(
    "/items/{item_id}",
    response_model=Item,

        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'

components:
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request
      content:

    response = client.get("/query_examples/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    response = client.get("/query_example_examples/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    response = client.get("/header_example/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    response = client.get("/header_examples/")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text

    response = client.get("/response_model-no_annotation-return_same_model")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"name": "John", "surname": "Doe"}


def test_response_model_no_annotation_return_exact_dict():
    response = client.get("/response_model-no_annotation-return_exact_dict")
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"name": "John", "surname": "Doe"}

### Add some custom `tags`, `responses`, and `dependencies` { #add-some-custom-tags-responses-and-dependencies }

We are not adding the prefix `/items` nor the `tags=["items"]` to each *path operation* because we added them to the `APIRouter`.

But we can still add _more_ `tags` that will be applied to a specific *path operation*, and also some extra `responses` specific to that *path operation*:

                        response.body = b""
                    response.headers.raw.extend(solved_result.response.headers.raw)
        if errors:
            validation_error = RequestValidationError(
                errors, body=body, endpoint_ctx=endpoint_ctx
            )
            raise validation_error

        # Return response
        assert response
        return response

    return app

///

## OpenAPI and API docs { #openapi-and-api-docs }

If you return additional status codes and responses directly, they won't be included in the OpenAPI schema (the API docs), because FastAPI doesn't have a way to know beforehand what you are going to return.