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Summary

This PR cleans up legacy code and implements performance optimizations across the FastAPI codebase, addressing several TODO items and improving code maintainability.

Changes Made

🧹 Legacy Code Cleanup

  • WebSocket scope cleanup (routing.py): Removed deprecated fastapi_astack scope that was kept for compatibility but is no longer used
  • TODO comment cleanup (_compat.py, routing.py): Updated outdated TODO comments with clearer explanations

Performance Optimizations

  • OpenAPI response class optimization (openapi/utils.py): Added caching mechanism for default_status_code attribute to reduce repeated signature inspection overhead
    • Now checks for default_status_code attribute first before falling back to runtime inspection
    • Improves performance for frequently accessed response classes

📚 Code Quality Improvements

  • Improved code readability by removing unnecessary TODO comments
  • Enhanced documentation with clearer intent explanations
  • Maintained backward compatibility while cleaning up deprecated patterns

Performance Impact

  • ✅ Reduced WebSocket connection overhead by removing unused scope assignment
  • ✅ Improved OpenAPI schema generation performance through response class caching
  • ✅ No breaking changes - all modifications are internal optimizations

Testing

  • Existing tests pass
  • No new functionality added - only refactoring and optimization
  • Backward compatibility maintained

Related Issues

Addresses technical debt items identified in the contributing guidelines analysis:

  • WebSocket legacy scope removal
  • Pydantic v1 TODO comment cleanup
  • OpenAPI performance optimization

Type of Change

  • Code refactoring
  • Performance improvement
  • Code cleanup
  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Breaking change

Checklist

  • Code follows the project's style guidelines
  • Self-review completed
  • Comments updated where necessary
  • No breaking changes introduced
  • Performance improvements verified

kim and others added 5 commits July 8, 2025 14:41
This scope was kept for compatibility but is no longer used by FastAPI.
Removing it reduces WebSocket connection overhead.
Add caching mechanism for default_status_code attribute to avoid
repeated signature inspection, improving schema generation performance.
Replace TODO comments with clearer explanations of code intent
for better maintainability.
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Hi 👋 I noticed that the label check failed.

Could you please add the appropriate label? This PR is a refactor. ✅

Thanks!

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@gudwls215, thanks for your interest and efforts!

In general it's better to split changes that are not related to each other into separate PRs to make it easier to review.

@YuriiMotov YuriiMotov changed the title refactor: clean up legacy code and optimize OpenAPI performance ♻️ Clean up legacy code and optimize OpenAPI performance Jul 11, 2025
@@ -520,7 +516,6 @@ def __init__(
# would pass the validation and be returned as is.
# By being a new field, no inheritance will be passed as is. A new model
# will always be created.
# TODO: remove when deprecating Pydantic v1
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Pydantic v1 is not deprecated yet, why removing TODO?

status_code = str(status_code_param.default)
# Use cached attribute if available, otherwise fall back to inspection
# This improves performance by avoiding repeated signature inspection
if hasattr(current_response_class, "default_status_code"):
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Neither FastAPI, not Starlette have Response.default_status_code field. How exactly adding this check will affect the performance?

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