# Using the Request Directly { #using-the-request-directly }

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.

     *         itself.
     */

    String getName();

    /**
     * Returns the DFS referral data associated with this resource if it has been resolved through DFS.
     *
     * @return dfs referral data
     */
    DfsReferralData getDfsReferral();

    /**
     * Everything but the last component of the URL representing this SMB

import jcifs.internal.smb2.ServerMessageBlock2Response;
import jcifs.internal.util.SMBUtil;

/**
 * SMB2 Flush response message.
 *
 * This response confirms that buffered data has been
 * successfully flushed to the storage device.
 *
 * @author mbechler
 */
public class Smb2FlushResponse extends ServerMessageBlock2Response {

    /**
     * Constructs an SMB2 flush response

          /*
           * requireNonNull is safe because we ensure that the first `distinct` elements have been
           * populated.
           */
          return of(requireNonNull(dedupedElements[0]));
        default:
          /*
           * The suppression is safe because we ensure that the first `distinct` elements have been
           * populated.
           */
          @SuppressWarnings("nullness")

   *     UTF-8, use {@code write(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))}.
   */
  @Deprecated
  @Override
  void writeBytes(String s);

  /** Returns the contents that have been written to this instance, as a byte array. */
  byte[] toByteArray();

import jcifs.internal.SMBProtocolDecodingException;

/**
 * Response for SMB1 TRANS_CALL_NAMED_PIPE transaction.
 *
 * This response contains the data returned from the named pipe
 * after a call transaction has been processed by the server.
 */
public class TransCallNamedPipeResponse extends SmbComTransactionResponse {

    private final byte[] outputBuffer;

    /**

  @WeakOuter
  private final class ServiceDelegate extends AbstractService {

    // A handle to the running task so that we can stop it when a shutdown has been requested.
    // These two fields are volatile because their values will be accessed from multiple threads.
    private volatile @Nullable Cancellable runningTask;

        } catch (final UnknownHostException uhe) {}

        if (ro == null || ro.length() == 0) {

            /* No resolveOrder has been specified, use the
             * default which is LMHOSTS,WINS,BCAST,DNS or just
             * LMHOSTS,BCAST,DNS if jcifs.smb1.netbios.wins has not
             * been specified.
             */

            if (nbns == null) {
                resolveOrder = new int[3];

    protected static final String EMPTY = new String();

    /** {@link BufferedReader} */
    protected final BufferedReader reader;

    /** The line that has been read */
    protected String line = EMPTY;

    /**
     * Returns an {@link Iterable} that wraps a {@link LineIterator} for use in enhanced for-loops.
     *
     * @param reader

      result.add(line);
    }
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Streams lines from a {@link Readable} object, stopping when the processor returns {@code false}
   * or all lines have been read and returning the result produced by the processor. Does not close
   * {@code readable}. Note that this method may not fully consume the contents of {@code readable}
   * if the processor stops processing early.
   *