fastapi-views

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Class-based views, CRUD utilities, and production-ready patterns for FastAPI.

FastAPI Views brings Django REST Framework-style class-based views to FastAPI — without giving up type safety or dependency injection. Define a full CRUD resource by inheriting one class; routes, status codes, and OpenAPI docs are wired up automatically.

Features

• Class-based views — View, APIView, APIViewSet, and GenericViewSet at three levels of abstraction; mix-in only the actions you need
• Full CRUD in one class — list, create, retrieve, update, partial_update, destroy with correct HTTP semantics out of the box (201 Created, 204 No Content, Location header, etc.)
• Generic views with the repository pattern — plug in any data source (SQLAlchemy, Motor, plain dicts) via a simple protocol; no ORM dependency
• Bulk actions — AsyncBulkAPIViewSet adds bulk create, per-item bulk update, filtered update, and filtered delete on a single /bulk route
• JSON Patch — RFC 6902 PATCH support with application/json-patch+json request bodies (optional extra)
• DRF-style filters — ModelFilter, OrderingFilter, SearchFilter, PaginationFilter, OffsetLimitFilter, CursorPaginationFilter, FieldsFilter, and a combined Filter class; built-in SQLAlchemy and Python object resolvers
• RFC 9457 Problem Details — every error response is machine-readable; built-in classes for the most common cases; custom errors auto-register in the OpenAPI spec
• Fast Pydantic v2 serialization — TypeAdapter cached per schema type avoids the double validation/model instantiation that FastAPI does by default, reducing per-request overhead
• Response caching — CachedAPIView, the @cache decorator, and CacheMiddleware, with in-memory and Redis backends (optional extra)
• Conditional requests — ConditionalMixin emits ETag / Last-Modified validators and answers 304 Not Modified from a cheap version column, without serialising a body
• Documented response headers — declare a ResponseHeaders model on a view, action, or router and the headers show up in the OpenAPI spec
• Server-Sent Events — ServerSentEventsAPIView and @sse_route handle framing, content-type, and Pydantic validation automatically
• WebSockets — WebSocketAPIView handles connection lifecycle, per-class connection tracking, broadcast helpers, and Pydantic validation of binary frames; disconnects and failed handshakes are cleaned up without masking the original error
• Authentication & authorization — bearer-token auth built on FastAPI's Security system: JWTAuth (JWKS import, claims validation, token minting), hierarchical OAuth2 scope enforcement via requires(*scopes), header API-key auth (APIKeyAuth, ConstAPIKeyAuth), and an Auth0 integration (optional extras)
• Internationalization (i18n) — per-request locale detection (query param, cookie, Accept-Language), pluggable translation managers (JSON files, in-memory, or custom), str.format/Jinja2 formatters, and Translated[str] model fields; built-in error messages are translatable out of the box (optional extra)
• Async and sync support — every class ships an Async and a synchronous variant; sync endpoints run in a thread pool
• One-call setup — configure_app(app) registers error handlers, Prometheus middleware, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, locale detection, optional request logging, and a concurrency limit
• Prometheus metrics — /metrics endpoint with request count, latency histogram, and in-flight requests (optional extra)
• OpenTelemetry tracing — correlation_id injected into every error response for easy trace correlation (optional extra)
• Structured request logging — opt-in RequestLoggingMiddleware backed by structlog, enabled with configure_app(enable_request_logging_middleware=True) (optional extra)
• Readable OpenAPI operation IDs — list_item, create_item, retrieve_item instead of FastAPI's long path-derived defaults
• CLI — export a static openapi.json / openapi.yaml without starting a server

Documentation: https://asynq-io.github.io/fastapi-views/

Repository: https://github.com/asynq-io/fastapi-views

Installation

pip install fastapi-views

Optional dependencies

Available extensions: uvloop, uvicorn, prometheus, opentelemetry, cli, structlog, websockets, jose (JWT auth), auth0 (Auth0 auth), i18n, cache (Redis), jsonpatch, sqlargon (SQLAlchemy repositories), and standard (a curated bundle).

pip install 'fastapi-views[all]'

Quick start

from typing import ClassVar, Optional
from uuid import UUID

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

from fastapi_views import ViewRouter, configure_app
from fastapi_views.views.viewsets import AsyncAPIViewSet


class ItemSchema(BaseModel):
    id: UUID
    name: str
    price: int


class ItemViewSet(AsyncAPIViewSet):
    api_component_name = "Item"
    response_schema = ItemSchema

    # In-memory store — swap for a real repository in production
    items: ClassVar[dict[UUID, ItemSchema]] = {}

    async def list(self) -> list[ItemSchema]:
        return list(self.items.values())

    async def create(self, item: ItemSchema) -> ItemSchema:
        self.items[item.id] = item
        return item

    async def retrieve(self, id: UUID) -> Optional[ItemSchema]:
        return self.items.get(id)

    async def update(self, id: UUID, item: ItemSchema) -> ItemSchema:
        self.items[id] = item
        return item

    async def destroy(self, id: UUID) -> None:
        self.items.pop(id, None)


router = ViewRouter(prefix="/items")
router.register_view(ItemViewSet)

app = FastAPI(title="My API")
app.include_router(router)

configure_app(app)

This registers the following routes automatically: