from typing import Union from fastapi import FastAPI, Query app = FastAPI() @app.get("/items/") async def read_items( q: Union[str, None] = Query( default=None, alias="item-query", title="Query string", description="Query string for the items to search in the database that have a good match", min_length=3, max_length=50, pattern="^fixedquery$", deprecated=True, ), ): results = {"items": [{"item_id": "Foo"}, {"item_id": "Bar"}]} if q: results.update({"q": q}) return results