from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Response from fastapi.testclient import TestClient app = FastAPI() async def response_status_setter(response: Response): response.status_code = 201 async def parent_dep(result=Depends(response_status_setter)): return result @app.get("/", dependencies=[Depends(parent_dep)]) async def get_main(): return {"msg": "Hello World"} client = TestClient(app) def test_dependency_set_status_code(): response = client.get("/") assert response.status_code == 201, response.text assert response.json() == {"msg": "Hello World"}