Choosing the appropriate responses

The FastAPI framework offers other options for rendering API endpoint responses other than the most common JsonResponse option. Here is a list of some of the response types supported by FastAPI and their corresponding samples from our application:

• The API endpoints can utilize the PlainTextResponse type if their response is text-based only. The following intro_list_restaurants() service returns a text-based message to the client:

  @router.get("/restaurant/index")
  def intro_list_restaurants():
    return PlainTextResponse(content="The Restaurants")

• Services can use RedirectResponse if they need to pursue navigation to another entirely different application or another endpoint of the same application. The following endpoint jumps to a hypertext reference about some known Michelin-starred restaurants:

  @router.get("/restaurant/michelin")
  def redirect_restaurants_rates():
    return RedirectResponse...