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There are several parameters that you can pass to your path operation decorator to configure it.
!!! warning Notice that these parameters are passed directly to the path operation decorator, not to your path operation function.
Response Status Code
You can define the (HTTP) status_code to be used in the response of your path operation.
You can pass directly the int code, like 404.
But if you don't remember what each number code is for, you can use the shortcut constants in status:
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial001.py!}
That status code will be used in the response and will be added to the OpenAPI schema.
!!! note "Technical Details"
You could also use from starlette import status.
**FastAPI** provides the same `starlette.status` as `fastapi.status` just as a convenience for you, the developer. But it comes directly from Starlette.
Tags
You can add tags to your path operation, pass the parameter tags with a list of str (commonly just one str):
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial002.py!}
They will be added to the OpenAPI schema and used by the automatic documentation interfaces:
Summary and description
You can add a summary and description:
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial003.py!}
Description from docstring
As descriptions tend to be long and cover multiple lines, you can declare the path operation description in the function docstring and FastAPI will read it from there.
You can write Markdown in the docstring, it will be interpreted and displayed correctly (taking into account docstring indentation).
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial004.py!}
It will be used in the interactive docs:
Response description
You can specify the response description with the parameter response_description:
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial005.py!}
!!! info
Notice that response_description refers specifically to the response, the description refers to the path operation in general.
!!! check OpenAPI specifies that each path operation requires a response description.
So, if you don't provide one, **FastAPI** will automatically generate one of "Successful response".
Deprecate a path operation
If you need to mark a path operation as deprecated, but without removing it, pass the parameter deprecated:
{!./src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial006.py!}
It will be clearly marked as deprecated in the interactive docs:
Check how deprecated and non-deprecated path operations look like:
Recap
You can configure and add metadata for your path operations easily by passing parameters to the path operation decorators.