# `Request` class

You can declare a parameter in a *path operation function* or dependency to be of type `Request` and then you can access the raw request object directly, without any validation, etc.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import Request
```

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

You can see the query parameters in the docs UI at `/docs`:

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## Forbid Extra Query Parameters { #forbid-extra-query-parameters }

In some special use cases (probably not very common), you might want to **restrict** the query parameters that you want to receive.

#### Union { #union }

You can declare that a variable can be any of **several types**, for example, an `int` or a `str`.

In Python 3.6 and above (including Python 3.10) you can use the `Union` type from `typing` and put inside the square brackets the possible types to accept.

$ python main.py

// Now it can read the environment variable

Hello Wade Wilson from Python
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As environment variables can be set outside of the code, but can be read by the code, and don't have to be stored (committed to `git`) with the rest of the files, it's common to use them for configurations or **settings**.

functionality. Syntax is `mc support inspect ALIAS/path/to/files`. This can for example be used to collect `xl.meta` from objects that are misbehaving. To collect `xl.meta` from a specific object, for example placed at `ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt` append `/xl.meta`, for instance `mc support inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt/xl.meta`. All files can be collected, so this can also be used to retrieve `part.*` files, etc.

Wildcards can be used, for example `mc support inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/**/xl.meta`...

### Read Heroes { #read-heroes }

We can **read** `Hero`s from the database using a `select()`. We can include a `limit` and `offset` to paginate the results.

{* ../../docs_src/sql_databases/tutorial001_an_py310.py ln[48:55] hl[51:52,54] *}

### Read One Hero { #read-one-hero }

We can **read** a single `Hero`.

{* ../../docs_src/sql_databases/tutorial001_an_py310.py ln[58:63] hl[60] *}

You can use the same type declarations with `str`, `float`, `bool` and many other complex data types.

Several of these are explored in the next chapters of the tutorial.

## Order matters { #order-matters }

When creating *path operations*, you can find situations where you have a fixed path.

You can return a `RedirectResponse` directly:

{* ../../docs_src/custom_response/tutorial006_py39.py hl[2,9] *}

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Or you can use it in the `response_class` parameter:


{* ../../docs_src/custom_response/tutorial006b_py39.py hl[2,7,9] *}

If you do that, then you can return the URL directly from your *path operation* function.

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Keep in mind that dataclasses can't do everything Pydantic models can do.

So, you might still need to use Pydantic models.

But if you have a bunch of dataclasses laying around, this is a nice trick to use them to power a web API using FastAPI. 🤓

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## Dataclasses in `response_model` { #dataclasses-in-response-model }

You can also use `dataclasses` in the `response_model` parameter:

## Use a `Response` parameter { #use-a-response-parameter }

You can declare a parameter of type `Response` in your *path operation function* (as you can do for cookies).

And then you can set headers in that *temporal* response object.

{* ../../docs_src/response_headers/tutorial002_py39.py hl[1, 7:8] *}

And then you can return any object you need, as you normally would (a `dict`, a database model, etc).