Check the in-code annotation tips above to see more specific details.

## Learn More

You can also combine `dataclasses` with other Pydantic models, inherit from them, include them in your own models, etc.

To learn more, check the <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/dataclasses/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Pydantic docs about dataclasses</a>.

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

!!! tip

# Alternatives, Inspiration and Comparisons

What inspired **FastAPI**, how it compares to alternatives and what it learned from them.

## Intro

**FastAPI** wouldn't exist if not for the previous work of others.

There have been many tools created before that have helped inspire its creation.

## Add extra information

You can declare extra information in `Field`, `Query`, `Body`, etc. And it will be included in the generated JSON Schema.

You will learn more about adding extra information later in the docs, when learning to declare examples.

!!! warning
    Extra keys passed to `Field` will also be present in the resulting OpenAPI schema for your application.

But for the generated client we could **modify** the OpenAPI operation IDs right before generating the clients, just to make those method names nicer and **cleaner**.

We could download the OpenAPI JSON to a file `openapi.json` and then we could **remove that prefixed tag** with a script like this:

=== "Python"

    ```Python

---

"_If you're looking to learn one **modern framework** for building REST APIs, check out **FastAPI** [...] It's fast, easy to use and easy to learn [...]_"

"_We've switched over to **FastAPI** for our **APIs** [...] I think you'll like it [...]_"

---

"_If you're looking to learn one **modern framework** for building REST APIs, check out **FastAPI** [...] It's fast, easy to use and easy to learn [...]_"

"_We've switched over to **FastAPI** for our **APIs** [...] I think you'll like it [...]_"

client = TestClient(app)


def test_security_http_bearer():
    response = client.get("/users/me", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer foobar"})
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"scheme": "Bearer", "credentials": "foobar"}


def test_security_http_bearer_no_credentials():
    response = client.get("/users/me")

    assert response.json() == {"detail": "Not authenticated"}
    assert response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] == "Bearer"


@needs_py39
def test_token(client: TestClient):
    access_token = get_access_token(scope="me", client=client)
    response = client.get(
        "/users/me", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {access_token}"}
    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {

from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing_extensions import Annotated

app = FastAPI()

bearer_scheme = HTTPBearer()


class Subscription(BaseModel):
    username: str
    monthly_fee: float
    start_date: datetime


@app.webhooks.post("new-subscription")
def new_subscription(
    body: Subscription, token: Annotated[str, Security(bearer_scheme)]
):
    """