If you want to receive partial updates, it's very useful to use the parameter `exclude_unset` in Pydantic's model's `.model_dump()`.

Like `item.model_dump(exclude_unset=True)`.

That would generate a `dict` with only the data that was set when creating the `item` model, excluding default values.

Then you can use this to generate a `dict` with only the data that was set (sent in the request), omitting default values:

from fastapi import Body, FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    description: str | None = None
    price: float
    tax: float | None = None


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item = Body(embed=True)):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


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


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    description: str | None = None
    price: float
    tax: float | None = None
    tags: set[str] = set()


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}

from fastapi.temp_pydantic_v1_params import Body
from pydantic.v1 import BaseModel


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    description: str | None = None
    size: float


app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/items/")
async def create_item(item: Annotated[Item, Body(embed=True)]) -> Item:

		{name: "dir1/dira/dirasub/sublevel3/dccccfile", size: 10},
	}
	createUsageTestFiles(t, base, bucket, files)

	getSize := func(item scannerItem) (sizeS sizeSummary, err error) {
		if item.Typ&os.ModeDir == 0 {
			var s os.FileInfo
			s, err = os.Stat(item.Path)
			if err != nil {
				return sizeS, err
			}
			sizeS.totalSize = s.Size()
			sizeS.versions++
			return sizeS, nil
		}
		return sizeS, err

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
async def read_item(item_id: str, q: str | None = None, short: bool = False):
    item = {"item_id": item_id}
    if q:
        item.update({"q": q})
    if not short:
        item.update(
            {"description": "This is an amazing item that has a long description"}
        )

from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


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


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}

from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


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


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}

	var productWithItem Product4
	if err := DB.Session(&gorm.Session{SkipHooks: true}).Preload("Item").First(&productWithItem, "name = ?", product.Name).Error; err != nil {
		t.Errorf("should find product, but got error %v", err)
	}

	if productWithItem.Item.AfterFindCallTimes != 0 {
		t.Fatalf("AfterFind should not be called times:%d", productWithItem.Item.AfterFindCallTimes)
	}
}

type Product5 struct {
	gorm.Model
	Name string