Fastapi: [QUESTION] How to response with empty body?

[symonsoft]

Though I neither declare response model (None by default) neither return anything the response contains null. Is there a way to send empty body?

[phy25]

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https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/449#issuecomment-523371704

[alvarogf97]

Do you want to return HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT? If it is true, remove return statement from your endpoint handler.

[iishyfishyy]

I know in Flask you had to do something like return '', 200. You could try returning an empty string. There's probably a cleaner way, though.

[f0ff886f]

This may help: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/717#issuecomment-583826657

[symonsoft]

@alvarogf97

Do you want to return HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT? If it is true, remove return statement from your endpoint handler.

I want to return 200 and no body at all.
If I remove return response status is 200 and body is "null".

[symonsoft]

This works as I need:
return Response(status_code=HTTP_200_OK)

Thanks all!

[tiangolo]

Thanks for the help here everyone! :cake:

Thanks @symonsoft for reporting back and closing the issue :+1:

[gaschu95]

imports for the answer from @symonsoft are

from starlette.responses import Response
from starlette.status import HTTP_200_OK