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Security Tools¶

When you need to declare dependencies with OAuth2 scopes you use Security().

But you still need to define what is the dependable, the callable that you pass as a parameter to Depends() or Security().

There are multiple tools that you can use to create those dependables, and they get integrated into OpenAPI so they are shown in the automatic docs UI, they can be used by automatically generated clients and SDKs, etc.

You can import them from fastapi.security:

from fastapi.security import (
    APIKeyCookie,
    APIKeyHeader,
    APIKeyQuery,
    HTTPAuthorizationCredentials,
    HTTPBasic,
    HTTPBasicCredentials,
    HTTPBearer,
    HTTPDigest,
    OAuth2,
    OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer,
    OAuth2PasswordBearer,
    OAuth2PasswordRequestForm,
    OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict,
    OpenIdConnect,
    SecurityScopes,
)

Read more about them in the FastAPI docs about Security.

APIKeyCookie(
    *,
    name,
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: APIKeyBase

API key authentication using a cookie.

This defines the name of the cookie that should be provided in the request with the API key and integrates that into the OpenAPI documentation. It extracts the key value sent in the cookie automatically and provides it as the dependency result. But it doesn't define how to set that cookie.

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be a string containing the key value.

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import APIKeyCookie

app = FastAPI()

cookie_scheme = APIKeyCookie(name="session")

@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(session: str = Depends(cookie_scheme)):
    return {"session": session}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
name Cookie name. TYPE: str
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the cookie is not provided, APIKeyCookie will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the cookie is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a cookie or in an HTTP Bearer token). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    name: Annotated[str, Doc("Cookie name.")],
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the cookie is not provided, `APIKeyCookie` will
            automatically cancel the request and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the cookie is not available,
            instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a cookie or
            in an HTTP Bearer token).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    super().__init__(
        location=APIKeyIn.cookie,
        name=name,
        scheme_name=scheme_name,
        description=description,
        auto_error=auto_error,
    )
model = APIKey(
    **{"in": location}, name=name, description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must include a WWW-Authenticate header.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

For this, this method sends a custom challenge APIKey.

Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but
    the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must
    include a WWW-Authenticate header.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

    For this, this method sends a custom challenge `APIKey`.
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "APIKey"},
    )
check_api_key(api_key)
code
def check_api_key(self, api_key: str | None) -> str | None:
    if not api_key:
        if self.auto_error:
            raise self.make_not_authenticated_error()
        return None
    return api_key
APIKeyHeader(
    *,
    name,
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: APIKeyBase

API key authentication using a header.

This defines the name of the header that should be provided in the request with the API key and integrates that into the OpenAPI documentation. It extracts the key value sent in the header automatically and provides it as the dependency result. But it doesn't define how to send that key to the client.

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be a string containing the key value.

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import APIKeyHeader

app = FastAPI()

header_scheme = APIKeyHeader(name="x-key")

@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(key: str = Depends(header_scheme)):
    return {"key": key}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
name Header name. TYPE: str
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the header is not provided, APIKeyHeader will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the header is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a header or in an HTTP Bearer token). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    name: Annotated[str, Doc("Header name.")],
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the header is not provided, `APIKeyHeader` will
            automatically cancel the request and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the header is not available,
            instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a header or
            in an HTTP Bearer token).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    super().__init__(
        location=APIKeyIn.header,
        name=name,
        scheme_name=scheme_name,
        description=description,
        auto_error=auto_error,
    )
model = APIKey(
    **{"in": location}, name=name, description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must include a WWW-Authenticate header.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

For this, this method sends a custom challenge APIKey.

Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but
    the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must
    include a WWW-Authenticate header.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

    For this, this method sends a custom challenge `APIKey`.
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "APIKey"},
    )
check_api_key(api_key)
code
def check_api_key(self, api_key: str | None) -> str | None:
    if not api_key:
        if self.auto_error:
            raise self.make_not_authenticated_error()
        return None
    return api_key
APIKeyQuery(
    *,
    name,
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: APIKeyBase

API key authentication using a query parameter.

This defines the name of the query parameter that should be provided in the request with the API key and integrates that into the OpenAPI documentation. It extracts the key value sent in the query parameter automatically and provides it as the dependency result. But it doesn't define how to send that API key to the client.

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be a string containing the key value.

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery

app = FastAPI()

query_scheme = APIKeyQuery(name="api_key")

@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(api_key: str = Depends(query_scheme)):
    return {"api_key": api_key}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
name Query parameter name. TYPE: str
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the query parameter is not provided, APIKeyQuery will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the query parameter is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a query parameter or in an HTTP Bearer token). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    name: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc("Query parameter name."),
    ],
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the query parameter is not provided, `APIKeyQuery` will
            automatically cancel the request and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the query parameter is not
            available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be
            `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in a query
            parameter or in an HTTP Bearer token).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    super().__init__(
        location=APIKeyIn.query,
        name=name,
        scheme_name=scheme_name,
        description=description,
        auto_error=auto_error,
    )
model = APIKey(
    **{"in": location}, name=name, description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must include a WWW-Authenticate header.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

For this, this method sends a custom challenge APIKey.

Source code in fastapi/security/api_key.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The WWW-Authenticate header is not standardized for API Key authentication but
    the HTTP specification requires that an error of 401 "Unauthorized" must
    include a WWW-Authenticate header.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized

    For this, this method sends a custom challenge `APIKey`.
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "APIKey"},
    )
check_api_key(api_key)
code
def check_api_key(self, api_key: str | None) -> str | None:
    if not api_key:
        if self.auto_error:
            raise self.make_not_authenticated_error()
        return None
    return api_key
HTTPBasic(
    *,
    scheme_name=None,
    realm=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: HTTPBase

HTTP Basic authentication.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7617

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be an HTTPBasicCredentials object containing the username and the password.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for HTTP Basic Auth.

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import HTTPBasic, HTTPBasicCredentials

app = FastAPI()

security = HTTPBasic()

@app.get("/users/me")
def read_current_user(credentials: Annotated[HTTPBasicCredentials, Depends(security)]):
    return {"username": credentials.username, "password": credentials.password}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
realm HTTP Basic authentication realm. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the HTTP Basic authentication is not provided (a header), HTTPBasic will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Basic authentication is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in HTTP Basic authentication or in an HTTP Bearer token). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/http.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    realm: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            HTTP Basic authentication realm.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the HTTP Basic authentication is not provided (a
            header), `HTTPBasic` will automatically cancel the request and send the
            client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Basic authentication
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in HTTP Basic
            authentication or in an HTTP Bearer token).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    self.model = HTTPBaseModel(scheme="basic", description=description)
    self.scheme_name = scheme_name or self.__class__.__name__
    self.realm = realm
    self.auto_error = auto_error
model = HTTPBase(scheme='basic', description=description)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
realm = realm
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()
code
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers=self.make_authenticate_headers(),
    )
make_authenticate_headers()
code
def make_authenticate_headers(self) -> dict[str, str]:
    if self.realm:
        return {"WWW-Authenticate": f'Basic realm="{self.realm}"'}
    return {"WWW-Authenticate": "Basic"}
HTTPBearer(
    *,
    bearerFormat=None,
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: HTTPBase

HTTP Bearer token authentication.

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be an HTTPAuthorizationCredentials object containing the scheme and the credentials.

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import HTTPAuthorizationCredentials, HTTPBearer

app = FastAPI()

security = HTTPBearer()

@app.get("/users/me")
def read_current_user(
    credentials: Annotated[HTTPAuthorizationCredentials, Depends(security)]
):
    return {"scheme": credentials.scheme, "credentials": credentials.credentials}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
bearerFormat Bearer token format. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the HTTP Bearer token is not provided (in an Authorization header), HTTPBearer will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Bearer token is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in an HTTP Bearer token or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/http.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    bearerFormat: Annotated[str | None, Doc("Bearer token format.")] = None,
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the HTTP Bearer token is not provided (in an
            `Authorization` header), `HTTPBearer` will automatically cancel the
            request and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Bearer token
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in an HTTP
            Bearer token or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    self.model = HTTPBearerModel(bearerFormat=bearerFormat, description=description)
    self.scheme_name = scheme_name or self.__class__.__name__
    self.auto_error = auto_error
model = HTTPBearer(
    bearerFormat=bearerFormat, description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_authenticate_headers()
code
def make_authenticate_headers(self) -> dict[str, str]:
    return {"WWW-Authenticate": f"{self.model.scheme.title()}"}
make_not_authenticated_error()
code
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers=self.make_authenticate_headers(),
    )
HTTPDigest(
    *, scheme_name=None, description=None, auto_error=True
)

Bases: HTTPBase

HTTP Digest authentication.

Warning: this is only a stub to connect the components with OpenAPI in FastAPI, but it doesn't implement the full Digest scheme, you would need to subclass it and implement it in your code.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7616

Create an instance object and use that object as the dependency in Depends().

The dependency result will be an HTTPAuthorizationCredentials object containing the scheme and the credentials.

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import HTTPAuthorizationCredentials, HTTPDigest

app = FastAPI()

security = HTTPDigest()

@app.get("/users/me")
def read_current_user(
    credentials: Annotated[HTTPAuthorizationCredentials, Depends(security)]
):
    return {"scheme": credentials.scheme, "credentials": credentials.credentials}
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if the HTTP Digest is not provided, HTTPDigest will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Digest is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in HTTP Digest or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/http.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if the HTTP Digest is not provided, `HTTPDigest` will
            automatically cancel the request and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Digest is not
            available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in HTTP
            Digest or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    self.model = HTTPBaseModel(scheme="digest", description=description)
    self.scheme_name = scheme_name or self.__class__.__name__
    self.auto_error = auto_error
model = HTTPBase(scheme='digest', description=description)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_authenticate_headers()
code
def make_authenticate_headers(self) -> dict[str, str]:
    return {"WWW-Authenticate": f"{self.model.scheme.title()}"}
make_not_authenticated_error()
code
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers=self.make_authenticate_headers(),
    )

Bases: BaseModel

The HTTP authorization credentials in the result of using HTTPBearer or HTTPDigest in a dependency.

The HTTP authorization header value is split by the first space.

The first part is the scheme, the second part is the credentials.

For example, in an HTTP Bearer token scheme, the client will send a header like:

Authorization: Bearer deadbeef12346

In this case:

  • scheme will have the value "Bearer"
  • credentials will have the value "deadbeef12346"
scheme

The HTTP authorization scheme extracted from the header value.

credentials

The HTTP authorization credentials extracted from the header value.

Bases: BaseModel

The HTTP Basic credentials given as the result of using HTTPBasic in a dependency.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for HTTP Basic Auth.

username

The HTTP Basic username.

password

The HTTP Basic password.

OAuth2(
    *,
    flows=OAuthFlows(),
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: SecurityBase

This is the base class for OAuth2 authentication, an instance of it would be used as a dependency. All other OAuth2 classes inherit from it and customize it for each OAuth2 flow.

You normally would not create a new class inheriting from it but use one of the existing subclasses, and maybe compose them if you want to support multiple flows.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Security.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
flows The dictionary of OAuth2 flows. TYPE: OAuthFlows | dict[str, dict[str, Any]] DEFAULT: OAuthFlows()
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Authorization header is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2 or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    flows: Annotated[
        OAuthFlowsModel | dict[str, dict[str, Any]],
        Doc(
            """
            The dictionary of OAuth2 flows.
            """
        ),
    ] = OAuthFlowsModel(),
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for
            OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and
            send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Authorization header
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2
            or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    self.model = OAuth2Model(
        flows=cast(OAuthFlowsModel, flows), description=description
    )
    self.scheme_name = scheme_name or self.__class__.__name__
    self.auto_error = auto_error
model = OAuth2(
    flows=cast(OAuthFlows, flows), description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used, because a Bearer token is not really the only option to authenticate.

But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific as it's not defined in the specification.

For practical reasons, this method uses the Bearer challenge by default, as it's probably the most common one.

If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749

Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used,
    because a `Bearer` token is not really the only option to authenticate.

    But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific
    as it's not defined in the specification.

    For practical reasons, this method uses the `Bearer` challenge by default, as
    it's probably the most common one.

    If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided
    ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Bearer"},
    )
OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer(
    authorizationUrl,
    tokenUrl,
    refreshUrl=None,
    scheme_name=None,
    scopes=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True,
)

Bases: OAuth2

OAuth2 flow for authentication using a bearer token obtained with an OAuth2 code flow. An instance of it would be used as a dependency.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
tokenUrl The URL to obtain the OAuth2 token. TYPE: str
refreshUrl The URL to refresh the token and obtain a new one. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
scopes The OAuth2 scopes that would be required by the path operations that use this dependency. TYPE: dict[str, str] | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Authorization header is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2 or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    authorizationUrl: str,
    tokenUrl: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc(
            """
            The URL to obtain the OAuth2 token.
            """
        ),
    ],
    refreshUrl: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            The URL to refresh the token and obtain a new one.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    scopes: Annotated[
        dict[str, str] | None,
        Doc(
            """
            The OAuth2 scopes that would be required by the *path operations* that
            use this dependency.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for
            OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and
            send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Authorization header
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2
            or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    if not scopes:
        scopes = {}
    flows = OAuthFlowsModel(
        authorizationCode=cast(
            Any,
            {
                "authorizationUrl": authorizationUrl,
                "tokenUrl": tokenUrl,
                "refreshUrl": refreshUrl,
                "scopes": scopes,
            },
        )
    )
    super().__init__(
        flows=flows,
        scheme_name=scheme_name,
        description=description,
        auto_error=auto_error,
    )
model = OAuth2(
    flows=cast(OAuthFlows, flows), description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used, because a Bearer token is not really the only option to authenticate.

But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific as it's not defined in the specification.

For practical reasons, this method uses the Bearer challenge by default, as it's probably the most common one.

If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749

Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used,
    because a `Bearer` token is not really the only option to authenticate.

    But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific
    as it's not defined in the specification.

    For practical reasons, this method uses the `Bearer` challenge by default, as
    it's probably the most common one.

    If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided
    ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Bearer"},
    )
OAuth2PasswordBearer(
    tokenUrl,
    scheme_name=None,
    scopes=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True,
    refreshUrl=None,
)

Bases: OAuth2

OAuth2 flow for authentication using a bearer token obtained with a password. An instance of it would be used as a dependency.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
tokenUrl The URL to obtain the OAuth2 token. This would be the path operation that has OAuth2PasswordRequestForm as a dependency. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
scopes The OAuth2 scopes that would be required by the path operations that use this dependency. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: dict[str, str] | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Authorization header is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2 or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
refreshUrl The URL to refresh the token and obtain a new one. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    tokenUrl: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc(
            """
            The URL to obtain the OAuth2 token. This would be the *path operation*
            that has `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm` as a dependency.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    scopes: Annotated[
        dict[str, str] | None,
        Doc(
            """
            The OAuth2 scopes that would be required by the *path operations* that
            use this dependency.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for
            OAuth2 authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and
            send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Authorization header
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2
            or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
    refreshUrl: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            The URL to refresh the token and obtain a new one.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
):
    if not scopes:
        scopes = {}
    flows = OAuthFlowsModel(
        password=cast(
            Any,
            {
                "tokenUrl": tokenUrl,
                "refreshUrl": refreshUrl,
                "scopes": scopes,
            },
        )
    )
    super().__init__(
        flows=flows,
        scheme_name=scheme_name,
        description=description,
        auto_error=auto_error,
    )
model = OAuth2(
    flows=cast(OAuthFlows, flows), description=description
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()

The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used, because a Bearer token is not really the only option to authenticate.

But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific as it's not defined in the specification.

For practical reasons, this method uses the Bearer challenge by default, as it's probably the most common one.

If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749

Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    """
    The OAuth 2 specification doesn't define the challenge that should be used,
    because a `Bearer` token is not really the only option to authenticate.

    But declaring any other authentication challenge would be application-specific
    as it's not defined in the specification.

    For practical reasons, this method uses the `Bearer` challenge by default, as
    it's probably the most common one.

    If you are implementing an OAuth2 authentication scheme other than the provided
    ones in FastAPI (based on bearer tokens), you might want to override this.

    Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749
    """
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Bearer"},
    )
OAuth2PasswordRequestForm(
    *,
    grant_type=None,
    username,
    password,
    scope="",
    client_id=None,
    client_secret=None
)

This is a dependency class to collect the username and password as form data for an OAuth2 password flow.

The OAuth2 specification dictates that for a password flow the data should be collected using form data (instead of JSON) and that it should have the specific fields username and password.

All the initialization parameters are extracted from the request.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer.

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import OAuth2PasswordRequestForm

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/login")
def login(form_data: Annotated[OAuth2PasswordRequestForm, Depends()]):
    data = {}
    data["scopes"] = []
    for scope in form_data.scopes:
        data["scopes"].append(scope)
    if form_data.client_id:
        data["client_id"] = form_data.client_id
    if form_data.client_secret:
        data["client_secret"] = form_data.client_secret
    return data

Note that for OAuth2 the scope items:read is a single scope in an opaque string. You could have custom internal logic to separate it by colon characters (:) or similar, and get the two parts items and read. Many applications do that to group and organize permissions, you could do it as well in your application, just know that it is application specific, it's not part of the specification.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
grant_type The OAuth2 spec says it is required and MUST be the fixed string "password". Nevertheless, this dependency class is permissive and allows not passing it. If you want to enforce it, use instead the OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict dependency. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
username username string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name username. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
password password string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name password. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
scope A single string with actually several scopes separated by spaces. Each scope is also a string. For example, a single string with: ```python "items:read items:write users:read profile openid" ```` would represent the scopes: items:read items:write users:read profile openid Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str DEFAULT: ''
client_id If there's a client_id, it can be sent as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
client_secret If there's a client_secret (and a client_id), they can be sent as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    grant_type: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Form(pattern="^password$"),
        Doc(
            """
            The OAuth2 spec says it is required and MUST be the fixed string
            "password". Nevertheless, this dependency class is permissive and
            allows not passing it. If you want to enforce it, use instead the
            `OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict` dependency.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    username: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            `username` string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name
            `username`.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    password: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(json_schema_extra={"format": "password"}),
        Doc(
            """
            `password` string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name
            `password`.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    scope: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            A single string with actually several scopes separated by spaces. Each
            scope is also a string.

            For example, a single string with:

            ```python
            "items:read items:write users:read profile openid"
            ````

            would represent the scopes:

            * `items:read`
            * `items:write`
            * `users:read`
            * `profile`
            * `openid`

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ] = "",
    client_id: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            If there's a `client_id`, it can be sent as part of the form fields.
            But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the `client_id` and
            `client_secret` (if any) using HTTP Basic auth.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    client_secret: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Form(json_schema_extra={"format": "password"}),
        Doc(
            """
            If there's a `client_secret` (and a `client_id`), they can be sent
            as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends
            sending the `client_id` and `client_secret` (if any) using HTTP Basic
            auth.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
):
    self.grant_type = grant_type
    self.username = username
    self.password = password
    self.scopes = scope.split()
    self.client_id = client_id
    self.client_secret = client_secret
grant_type = grant_type
username = username
password = password
scopes = split()
client_id = client_id
client_secret = client_secret
OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict(
    grant_type,
    username,
    password,
    scope="",
    client_id=None,
    client_secret=None,
)

Bases: OAuth2PasswordRequestForm

This is a dependency class to collect the username and password as form data for an OAuth2 password flow.

The OAuth2 specification dictates that for a password flow the data should be collected using form data (instead of JSON) and that it should have the specific fields username and password.

All the initialization parameters are extracted from the request.

The only difference between OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict and OAuth2PasswordRequestForm is that OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict requires the client to send the form field grant_type with the value "password", which is required in the OAuth2 specification (it seems that for no particular reason), while for OAuth2PasswordRequestForm grant_type is optional.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer.

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastapi.security import OAuth2PasswordRequestForm

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/login")
def login(form_data: Annotated[OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict, Depends()]):
    data = {}
    data["scopes"] = []
    for scope in form_data.scopes:
        data["scopes"].append(scope)
    if form_data.client_id:
        data["client_id"] = form_data.client_id
    if form_data.client_secret:
        data["client_secret"] = form_data.client_secret
    return data

Note that for OAuth2 the scope items:read is a single scope in an opaque string. You could have custom internal logic to separate it by colon characters (:) or similar, and get the two parts items and read. Many applications do that to group and organize permissions, you could do it as well in your application, just know that it is application specific, it's not part of the specification.

the OAuth2 spec says it is required and MUST be the fixed string 'password'.

This dependency is strict about it. If you want to be permissive, use instead the OAuth2PasswordRequestForm dependency class.

username: username string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name "username". password: password string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name "password". scope: Optional string. Several scopes (each one a string) separated by spaces. E.g. "items:read items:write users:read profile openid" client_id: optional string. OAuth2 recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth, as: client_id:client_secret client_secret: optional string. OAuth2 recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth, as: client_id:client_secret

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
grant_type The OAuth2 spec says it is required and MUST be the fixed string "password". This dependency is strict about it. If you want to be permissive, use instead the OAuth2PasswordRequestForm dependency class. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
username username string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name username. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
password password string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name password. Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str
scope A single string with actually several scopes separated by spaces. Each scope is also a string. For example, a single string with: ```python "items:read items:write users:read profile openid" ```` would represent the scopes: items:read items:write users:read profile openid Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer. TYPE: str DEFAULT: ''
client_id If there's a client_id, it can be sent as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
client_secret If there's a client_secret (and a client_id), they can be sent as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the client_id and client_secret (if any) using HTTP Basic auth. TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    grant_type: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(pattern="^password$"),
        Doc(
            """
            The OAuth2 spec says it is required and MUST be the fixed string
            "password". This dependency is strict about it. If you want to be
            permissive, use instead the `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm` dependency
            class.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    username: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            `username` string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name
            `username`.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    password: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            `password` string. The OAuth2 spec requires the exact field name
            `password`.

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ],
    scope: Annotated[
        str,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            A single string with actually several scopes separated by spaces. Each
            scope is also a string.

            For example, a single string with:

            ```python
            "items:read items:write users:read profile openid"
            ````

            would represent the scopes:

            * `items:read`
            * `items:write`
            * `users:read`
            * `profile`
            * `openid`

            Read more about it in the
            [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](../../tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md).
            """
        ),
    ] = "",
    client_id: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            If there's a `client_id`, it can be sent as part of the form fields.
            But the OAuth2 specification recommends sending the `client_id` and
            `client_secret` (if any) using HTTP Basic auth.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    client_secret: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Form(),
        Doc(
            """
            If there's a `client_secret` (and a `client_id`), they can be sent
            as part of the form fields. But the OAuth2 specification recommends
            sending the `client_id` and `client_secret` (if any) using HTTP Basic
            auth.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
):
    super().__init__(
        grant_type=grant_type,
        username=username,
        password=password,
        scope=scope,
        client_id=client_id,
        client_secret=client_secret,
    )
grant_type = grant_type
username = username
password = password
scopes = split()
client_id = client_id
client_secret = client_secret
SecurityScopes(scopes=None)

This is a special class that you can define in a parameter in a dependency to obtain the OAuth2 scopes required by all the dependencies in the same chain.

This way, multiple dependencies can have different scopes, even when used in the same path operation. And with this, you can access all the scopes required in all those dependencies in a single place.

Read more about it in the FastAPI docs for OAuth2 scopes.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
scopes This will be filled by FastAPI. TYPE: list[str] | None DEFAULT: None
Source code in fastapi/security/oauth2.py
def __init__(
    self,
    scopes: Annotated[
        list[str] | None,
        Doc(
            """
            This will be filled by FastAPI.
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
):
    self.scopes: Annotated[
        list[str],
        Doc(
            """
            The list of all the scopes required by dependencies.
            """
        ),
    ] = scopes or []
    self.scope_str: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc(
            """
            All the scopes required by all the dependencies in a single string
            separated by spaces, as defined in the OAuth2 specification.
            """
        ),
    ] = " ".join(self.scopes)
scopes = scopes or []

The list of all the scopes required by dependencies.

scope_str = join(scopes)

All the scopes required by all the dependencies in a single string separated by spaces, as defined in the OAuth2 specification.

OpenIdConnect(
    *,
    openIdConnectUrl,
    scheme_name=None,
    description=None,
    auto_error=True
)

Bases: SecurityBase

OpenID Connect authentication class. An instance of it would be used as a dependency.

Warning: this is only a stub to connect the components with OpenAPI in FastAPI, but it doesn't implement the full OpenIdConnect scheme, for example, it doesn't use the OpenIDConnect URL. You would need to subclass it and implement it in your code.

PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
openIdConnectUrl The OpenID Connect URL. TYPE: str
scheme_name Security scheme name. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
description Security scheme description. It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at /docs). TYPE: str | None DEFAULT: None
auto_error By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for OpenID Connect authentication, it will automatically cancel the request and send the client an error. If auto_error is set to False, when the HTTP Authorization header is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will be None. This is useful when you want to have optional authentication. It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OpenID Connect or in a cookie). TYPE: bool DEFAULT: True
Source code in fastapi/security/open_id_connect_url.py
def __init__(
    self,
    *,
    openIdConnectUrl: Annotated[
        str,
        Doc(
            """
        The OpenID Connect URL.
        """
        ),
    ],
    scheme_name: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme name.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    description: Annotated[
        str | None,
        Doc(
            """
            Security scheme description.

            It will be included in the generated OpenAPI (e.g. visible at `/docs`).
            """
        ),
    ] = None,
    auto_error: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, if no HTTP Authorization header is provided, required for
            OpenID Connect authentication, it will automatically cancel the request
            and send the client an error.

            If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Authorization header
            is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
            be `None`.

            This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

            It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
            provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OpenID
            Connect or in a cookie).
            """
        ),
    ] = True,
):
    self.model = OpenIdConnectModel(
        openIdConnectUrl=openIdConnectUrl, description=description
    )
    self.scheme_name = scheme_name or self.__class__.__name__
    self.auto_error = auto_error
model = OpenIdConnect(
    openIdConnectUrl=openIdConnectUrl,
    description=description,
)
scheme_name = scheme_name or __name__
auto_error = auto_error
make_not_authenticated_error()
code
def make_not_authenticated_error(self) -> HTTPException:
    return HTTPException(
        status_code=HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Not authenticated",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Bearer"},
    )
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