from typing import Union from fastapi import FastAPI from pydantic import BaseModel as BaseModelV2 from pydantic.v1 import BaseModel class Item(BaseModel): name: str description: Union[str, None] = None size: float class ItemV2(BaseModelV2): name: str description: Union[str, None] = None size: float app = FastAPI() @app.post("/items/", response_model=ItemV2) async def create_item(item: Item): return item