Response Return Values

Response functions can return a number of different types as the response value which will trigger different responses to the client. The possible direct returns are,

Response Values

str

return "Hello"
return await render_template("index.html")

A solitary string return indicates that you intend to return a string mimetype text/html. The string will be encoded using the default charset.

dict

return {"a": "b"}

A solitary dict return indicates that you intend to return json, application/json. The jsonify function will be used to encode the dictionary.

Response

@app.route('/')
async def route_func():
    return Response("Hello")

Returning a Response instance indicates that you know exactly what you wish to return.

AsyncGenerator[bytes, None]

@app.route('/')
async def route_func():

    async def agen():
        data = await something
        yield data

    return agen()

Returning an async generator allows for the response to be streamed to the client, thereby lowing the peak memory usage, if combined with a Transfer-Encoding header with value chunked.

Generator[bytes, None, None]

@app.route('/')
async def route_func():

    def gen():
        yield data

    return gen()

Returning an generator allows for the response to be streamed to the client, thereby lowing the peak memory usage, if combined with a Transfer-Encoding header with value chunked.

Combinations

Any of the above Response Values can be combined, as described,

Tuple[ResponseValue, int]

@app.route('/')
async def route_func():
    return "Hello", 200

A tuple of a Response Value and a integer indicates that you intend to specify the status code.

Tuple[str, int, Dict[str, str]]

@app.route('/')
async def route_func():
    return "Hello", 200, {'X-Header': 'Value'}

A tuple of a Response Value, integer and dictionary indicates that you intend to specify additional headers.