I have the following FastAPI backend: from fastapi import FastAPI app = FastAPI class Demo(BaseModel): content: str = None @app.post("/demo") async def demoFunc(demo): return d.content The issue is that when I send a request to this API with extra data like: data = {"content":"some text here"}aaaa or data = {"content":"some text here"aaaaaa} resp = requests.post(url, json=data) it throws an error with status code 422 unprocessable entity error with Actual("some text here") and Extra("aaaaa") data in the return field in case of data = {"content":"some text here"}aaaa: { "detail": [ { "loc": [ "body", 47 ], "msg": "Extra data: line 4 column 2 (char 47)", "type": "value_error.jsondecode", "ctx": { "msg": "Extra data", "doc": "{\n \"content\": \"some text here\"}aaaaa", "pos": 47, "lineno": 4, "colno": 2 } } ] } I tried to put the line app=FastAPI() in a try-catch block, however, it doesn't work. Is there any way I can handle this issue with own response instead of the above mentioned auto response? Something like this: {"error": {"message": "Invalid JSON body"}, "status": 0} Continue reading...