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Hi community

This message is to clarify and make transparent the current situation of Public APIs, in addition to demonstrating the frustration of us maintainers. So read this if you find it interesting, please.

Well, I keep the Public APIs project together with other 3 developers (@pawelborkar, @marekdano and @yannbertrand) for a long time.

1 year ago, the Public APIs project was dead, w

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• I used the GitHub search to find a similar issue and didn't find it.
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• I already searched in Google "How to X in FastAPI" and didn't find any information.
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Sometimes it might be handy to easily get a header's value as int, where validation errors would automatically result in an HTTP 400, along the lines of req.get_header_as_datetime & [req.get_param_as_int](https://falcon.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/request_and_response_wsgi.ht

ujson is no more actively maintained and specially for some critical bugs not present in json package.

one example forcing us to revert ujson usage:
ultrajson/ultrajson#325 (2 days ago, mine)
ultrajson/ultrajson#301 (same but 1 year ago and no answer)

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Flask-restx uses ujson for serialization by default, falling back to normal json if unavailable.
As has been mentioned before ujson is quite flawed, with some people reporting rounding errors.

Additionally, ujson.dumps does not take the default argument, which allows one to pass any custom method as the serializer. Since my project uses some custom serialization, I have been forced t