/// warning

This is a rather advanced topic.

If you are starting with **FastAPI**, you might not need this.

///

You can declare additional responses, with additional status codes, media types, descriptions, etc.

Those additional responses will be included in the OpenAPI schema, so they will also appear in the API docs.

You can also declare a body as a `dict` with keys of some type and values of some other type.

This way, you don't have to know beforehand what the valid field/attribute names are (as would be the case with Pydantic models).

This would be useful if you want to receive keys that you don't already know.

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Another useful case is when you want to have keys of another type (e.g., `int`).

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.

Do you want to just have a `str`? Or just a `dict`? Or a database class model instance directly? It all works the same way.

You actually don't have users that log in to your application but robots, bots, or other systems, that have just an access token? Again, it all works the same.

If you want to secure your API, there are several better things you can do, for example:

* Make sure you have well defined Pydantic models for your request bodies and responses.

/// note | Technical Details

If you have dependencies with `yield`, the exit code will run *after* the middleware.

If there were any background tasks (covered in the [Background Tasks](background-tasks.md) section, you will see it later), they will run *after* all the middleware.

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## Create a middleware { #create-a-middleware }

To create a middleware you use the decorator `@app.middleware("http")` on top of a function.

   * you override {@link #listIterator()}, you may wish to override {@link #iterator} to forward to
   * this implementation.
   *
   * @since 7.0
   */
  protected Iterator<E> standardIterator() {
    return listIterator();
  }

  /**
   * A sensible default implementation of {@link #listIterator()}, in terms of {@link
   * #listIterator(int)}. If you override {@link #listIterator(int)}, you may wish to override

You just need to declare a **Pydantic model** with the fields you want to receive as **form fields**, and then declare the parameter as `Form`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_form_models/tutorial001_an_py310.py hl[9:11,15] *}

**FastAPI** will **extract** the data for **each field** from the **form data** in the request and give you the Pydantic model you defined.

## Check the Docs { #check-the-docs }

If you understood all this, you already know how those utility tools for security work underneath.

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## Dependencies with `yield`, `HTTPException`, `except` and Background Tasks { #dependencies-with-yield-httpexception-except-and-background-tasks }

/// warning

You most probably don't need these technical details.

Here I'll show you how to use **Uvicorn** with **worker processes** using the `fastapi` command or the `uvicorn` command directly.

/// info

If you are using containers, for example with Docker or Kubernetes, I'll tell you more about that in the next chapter: [FastAPI in Containers - Docker](docker.md).