# 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.

      this.headerBlock = headerBlock
    }

    override fun data(
      inFinished: Boolean,
      streamId: Int,
      source: BufferedSource,
      length: Int,
    ) {
      check(type == -1)
      this.type = Http2.TYPE_DATA
      this.inFinished = inFinished
      this.streamId = streamId
      this.data = source.readByteString(length.toLong()).toByteArray()
    }

    /**
     * Function code to peek at named pipe data without removing it
     */
    public static final int FSCTL_PIPE_PEEK = 0x0011400C;
    /**
     * Function code to wait for a named pipe to become available
     */
    public static final int FSCTL_PIPE_WAIT = 0x00110018;
    /**
     * Function code to transceive data on a named pipe
     */

* To pass a JSON body, pass a Python object (e.g. a `dict`) to the parameter `json`.
* If you need to send *Form Data* instead of JSON, use the `data` parameter instead.
* To pass *headers*, use a `dict` in the `headers` parameter.
* For *cookies*, a `dict` in the `cookies` parameter.

						if _, ok := first[dbName].(string); !ok {
							t.Errorf("invalid data type for %v, got %#v", dbName, first[dbName])
						}
					case "Age":
						if _, ok := first[dbName].(uint); !ok {
							t.Errorf("invalid data type for %v, got %#v", dbName, first[dbName])
						}
					case "Birthday":
						if _, ok := first[dbName].(*time.Time); !ok {
							t.Errorf("invalid data type for %v, got %#v", dbName, first[dbName])
						}
					}

    val trigger: Trigger = Trigger.NEVER,
    val runsIndependent: Boolean = false,
) {
    val id = stageName.id
}

data class DocsTestCoverage(
    val os: Os,
    val testJava: JvmCategory,
    val docsTestTypes: List<DocsTestType>,
)

data class TestCoverage(
    val uuid: Int,
    val testType: TestType,
    val os: Os,
    val testJvmVersion: JvmVersion,

        assertEquals(0, result);
    }

    @Test
    void readBodyWireFormat_shouldDelegateToReadResourceRecordWireFormat() throws Exception {
        // Prepare test data with minimal valid resource record
        byte[] src = new byte[100];
        int srcIndex = 10;

        // Set up a minimal resource record response
        // Name pointer (0xC00C)
        src[srcIndex] = (byte) 0xC0;

// that the file has no data in it, which is rather odd.
//
// As an example, if the underlying raw file contains the 10-byte data:
//
//	var compactFile = "abcdefgh"
//
// And the sparse map has the following entries:
//
//	var spd sparseDatas = []sparseEntry{
//		{Offset: 2,  Length: 5},  // Data fragment for 2..6
//		{Offset: 18, Length: 3},  // Data fragment for 18..20
//	}

    /**
     * Create a test byte array with specified size and pattern
     */
    private byte[] createTestData(int size) {
        byte[] data = new byte[size];
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            data[i] = (byte) (i % 256);
        }
        return data;
    }

    irrelevant data.

    This feature may be used with `POST` requests to cache their responses. In such cases the
    request body is not used to determine the cache key, so you must manually add cache-relevant
    data to the override URL. For example, you could add a `request-body-sha256` query parameter so
    requests with the same POST data get the same cache entry.