# Advanced Middleware { #advanced-middleware }

In the main tutorial you read how to add [Custom Middleware](../tutorial/middleware.md){.internal-link target=_blank} to your application.

And then you also read how to handle [CORS with the `CORSMiddleware`](../tutorial/cors.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

In this section we'll see how to use other middlewares.

## Adding ASGI middlewares { #adding-asgi-middlewares }

   * you override either of those methods, you may wish to override {@link #equals} to forward to
   * this implementation.
   *
   * @since 7.0
   */
  protected boolean standardEquals(@Nullable Object object) {
    return Sets.equalsImpl(this, object);
  }

  /**
   * A sensible definition of {@link #hashCode} in terms of {@link #iterator}. If you override

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# `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
```

/// tip

R8 / ProGuard
=============

If you use OkHttp as a dependency in an Android project which uses R8 as a default compiler you
don't have to do anything. The specific rules are [already bundled][okhttp3_pro] into the JAR which can be
interpreted by R8 automatically.

If you, however, don't use R8 you have to apply the rules from [this file][okhttp3_pro]. You might
also need rules from [Okio][okio] which is a dependency of this library.

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Let's say that you want to declare the query parameter `q` as a required `str`.

And you don't need to declare anything else for that parameter, so you don't really need to use `Query`.

But you still need to use `Path` for the `item_id` path parameter. And you don't want to use `Annotated` for some reason.

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# Async Tests { #async-tests }

You have already seen how to test your **FastAPI** applications using the provided `TestClient`. Up to now, you have only seen how to write synchronous tests, without using `async` functions.