"HTTPValidationError": {
                    "title": "HTTPValidationError",
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                        "detail": {
                            "title": "Detail",
                            "type": "array",
                            "items": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"},
                        }
                    },

            "schemas": {
                "HTTPValidationError": {
                    "properties": {
                        "detail": {
                            "items": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"},
                            "type": "array",
                            "title": "Detail",
                        }
                    },
                    "type": "object",

```JSON
{
  "detail": "Item not found"
}
```

/// tip

When raising an `HTTPException`, you can pass any value that can be converted to JSON as the parameter `detail`, not only `str`.

You could pass a `dict`, a `list`, etc.

They are handled automatically by **FastAPI** and converted to JSON.

///

    assert response.json() == {"username": "john", "password": "secret"}


@needs_py39
def test_security_http_basic_no_credentials(client: TestClient):
    response = client.get("/users/me")
    assert response.json() == {"detail": "Not authenticated"}
    assert response.status_code == 401, response.text
    assert response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] == "Basic"


@needs_py39
def test_security_http_basic_invalid_credentials(client: TestClient):

                "HTTPValidationError": {
                    "title": "HTTPValidationError",
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                        "detail": {
                            "title": "Detail",
                            "type": "array",
                            "items": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"},
                        }
                    },

            "schemas": {
                "HTTPValidationError": {
                    "properties": {
                        "detail": {
                            "items": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"},
                            "type": "array",
                            "title": "Detail",
                        }
                    },
                    "type": "object",

from docs_src.security.tutorial001 import app

client = TestClient(app)


def test_no_token():
    response = client.get("/items")
    assert response.status_code == 401, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"detail": "Not authenticated"}
    assert response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] == "Bearer"


def test_token():
    response = client.get("/items", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer testtoken"})

    assert response.json() == {"username": "john", "password": "secret"}


def test_security_http_basic_no_credentials():
    response = client.get("/users/me")
    assert response.json() == {"detail": "Not authenticated"}
    assert response.status_code == 401, response.text
    assert response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] == 'Basic realm="simple"'


def test_security_http_basic_invalid_credentials():

                "HTTPValidationError": {
                    "title": "HTTPValidationError",
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                        "detail": {
                            "title": "Detail",
                            "type": "array",
                            "items": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"},
                        }
                    },

                        "properties": {
                            "detail": {
                                "items": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"
                                },
                                "type": "array",
                                "title": "Detail",
                            }
                        },