from typing import Union from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.temp_pydantic_v1_params import Body from pydantic.v1 import BaseModel from typing_extensions import Annotated class Item(BaseModel): name: str description: Union[str, None] = None size: float app = FastAPI() @app.post("/items/") async def create_item(item: Annotated[Item, Body(embed=True)]) -> Item: return item