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Form

This class defines a form field in an API request body, defaulting to the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. It provides extensive support for data validation, metadata annotation, and OpenAPI schema customization. As a subclass of Body, it allows for fine-grained control over aliases, constraints, and deprecation status for individual form parameters.

Attributes

AttributeTypeDescription
media_typestring = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"The media type used to encode the form data, defaulting to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
include_in_schemaboolean = trueWhether to include this form field in the generated OpenAPI schema.

Constructor

Signature

def Form(
default: Any = Undefined,
default_factory: Callable[[], Any]| None = _Unset,
annotation: Any | None = None,
media_type: str = application/x-www-form-urlencoded,
alias: str | None = None,
alias_priority: int | None = _Unset,
validation_alias: str | AliasPath | AliasChoices | None = None,
serialization_alias: str | None = None,
title: str | None = None,
description: str | None = None,
gt: float | None = None,
ge: float | None = None,
lt: float | None = None,
le: float | None = None,
min_length: int | None = None,
max_length: int | None = None,
pattern: str | None = None,
regex: str | None = None,
discriminator: str | None = None,
strict: bool | None = _Unset,
multiple_of: float | None = _Unset,
allow_inf_nan: bool | None = _Unset,
max_digits: int | None = _Unset,
decimal_places: int | None = _Unset,
examples: list[Any]| None = None,
example: Any | None = _Unset,
openapi_examples: dict[str, [Example](../openapi/models/example.md?sid=fastapi_openapi_models_example)]| None = None,
deprecated: deprecated | str | bool | None = None,
include_in_schema: bool = True,
json_schema_extra: dict[str, Any]| None = None,
**extra: Any
) - > null

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
defaultAny = UndefinedThe default value for the form field.
default_factory`Callable[[], Any]None` = _Unset
annotation`AnyNone` = None
media_typestr = application/x-www-form-urlencodedThe media type for the form data.
alias`strNone` = None
alias_priority`intNone` = _Unset
validation_alias`strAliasPath
serialization_alias`strNone` = None
title`strNone` = None
description`strNone` = None
gt`floatNone` = None
ge`floatNone` = None
lt`floatNone` = None
le`floatNone` = None
min_length`intNone` = None
max_length`intNone` = None
pattern`strNone` = None
regex`strNone` = None
discriminator`strNone` = None
strict`boolNone` = _Unset
multiple_of`floatNone` = _Unset
allow_inf_nan`boolNone` = _Unset
max_digits`intNone` = _Unset
decimal_places`intNone` = _Unset
examples`list[Any]None` = None
example`AnyNone` = _Unset
openapi_examples`dict[str, Example]None` = None
deprecated`deprecatedstr
include_in_schemabool = TrueWhether to include this field in the OpenAPI schema.
json_schema_extra`dict[str, Any]None` = None
**extraAnyAdditional keyword arguments.

Signature

def Form(
default: Any = Undefined,
default_factory: Callable[[], Any]| None = _Unset,
annotation: Any | None = None,
media_type: str = application/x-www-form-urlencoded,
alias: str | None = None,
alias_priority: int | None = _Unset,
validation_alias: str | AliasPath | AliasChoices | None = None,
serialization_alias: str | None = None,
title: str | None = None,
description: str | None = None,
gt: float | None = None,
ge: float | None = None,
lt: float | None = None,
le: float | None = None,
min_length: int | None = None,
max_length: int | None = None,
pattern: str | None = None,
regex: str | None = None,
discriminator: str | None = None,
strict: bool | None = _Unset,
multiple_of: float | None = _Unset,
allow_inf_nan: bool | None = _Unset,
max_digits: int | None = _Unset,
decimal_places: int | None = _Unset,
examples: list[Any]| None = None,
example: Any | None = _Unset,
openapi_examples: dict[str, [Example](../openapi/models/example.md?sid=fastapi_openapi_models_example)]| None = None,
deprecated: deprecated | str | bool | None = None,
include_in_schema: bool = True,
json_schema_extra: dict[str, Any]| None = None
) - > null

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
defaultAny = UndefinedThe default value for the form field if none is provided in the request.
default_factory`Callable[[], Any]None` = _Unset
annotation`AnyNone` = None
media_typestr = application/x-www-form-urlencodedThe media type used to parse the request body, defaulting to standard form encoding.
alias`strNone` = None
alias_priority`intNone` = _Unset
validation_alias`strAliasPath
serialization_alias`strNone` = None
title`strNone` = None
description`strNone` = None
gt`floatNone` = None
ge`floatNone` = None
lt`floatNone` = None
le`floatNone` = None
min_length`intNone` = None
max_length`intNone` = None
pattern`strNone` = None
regex`strNone` = None
discriminator`strNone` = None
strict`boolNone` = _Unset
multiple_of`floatNone` = _Unset
allow_inf_nan`boolNone` = _Unset
max_digits`intNone` = _Unset
decimal_places`intNone` = _Unset
examples`list[Any]None` = None
example`AnyNone` = _Unset
openapi_examples`dict[str, Example]None` = None
deprecated`deprecatedstr
include_in_schemabool = TrueWhether to include this field in the generated OpenAPI documentation.
json_schema_extra`dict[str, Any]None` = None