/// note | "`async` Technical Details"

When you use the `async` methods, **FastAPI** runs the file methods in a threadpool and awaits for them.

///

/// note | "Starlette Technical Details"

**FastAPI**'s `UploadFile` inherits directly from **Starlette**'s `UploadFile`, but adds some necessary parts to make it compatible with **Pydantic** and the other parts of FastAPI.

///

## What is "Form Data"

from typing import Union

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: Union[str, None] = None
    description: Union[str, None] = None
    price: Union[float, None] = None
    tax: float = 10.5
    tags: list[str] = []


items = {
    "foo": {"name": "Foo", "price": 50.2},

from typing import Union

from fastapi import Body, FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing_extensions import Annotated

app = FastAPI()


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    description: Union[str, None] = None
    price: float
    tax: Union[float, None] = None


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(
    *,
    item_id: int,
    item: Annotated[
        Item,
        Body(

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import FastAPI, Form

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/login/")
async def login(username: Annotated[str, Form()], password: Annotated[str, Form()]):

from contextvars import ContextVar
from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Dict, Optional

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Request, Response
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

legacy_request_state_context_var: ContextVar[Optional[Dict[str, Any]]] = ContextVar(
    "legacy_request_state_context_var", default=None
)

app = FastAPI()


async def set_up_request_state_dependency():
    request_state = {"user": "deadpond"}

from typing import Union

from fastapi import Body, FastAPI, Query
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/query")
def read_query(q: Union[str, None]):
    return q


@app.get("/explicit-query")
def read_explicit_query(q: Union[str, None] = Query()):
    return q


@app.post("/body-embed")
def send_body_embed(b: Union[str, None] = Body(embed=True)):
    return b

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(q: str | None = None):
    results = {"items": [{"item_id": "Foo"}, {"item_id": "Bar"}]}
    if q:
        results.update({"q": q})

from typing import Annotated, Union

from fastapi import FastAPI, Header

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(
    strange_header: Annotated[
        Union[str, None], Header(convert_underscores=False)
    ] = None,
):

from fastapi import FastAPI, Query

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(
    hidden_query: str | None = Query(default=None, include_in_schema=False),
):
    if hidden_query:
        return {"hidden_query": hidden_query}
    else:

from typing import List, Union

from fastapi import FastAPI, Header

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(x_token: Union[List[str], None] = Header(default=None)):