from typing import Union from fastapi import FastAPI from pydantic import BaseModel class Item(BaseModel): name: str description: Union[str, None] = None price: float tax: Union[float, None] = None app = FastAPI() @app.put("/items/{item_id}") async def create_item(item_id: int, item: Item, q: Union[str, None] = None): result = {"item_id": item_id, **item.dict()} if q: result.update({"q": q}) return result