To use Pydantic instances as request and/or response of a REST service endpoint you must: * Define your Pydantic classes; * Provides the information required to the ``odoo.addons.base_rest.restapi.method`` decorator; .. code-block:: python from odoo.addons.base_rest import restapi from odoo.addons.component.core import Component from odoo.addons.pydantic.models import BaseModel class PingMessage(BaseModel): message: str class PingService(Component): _inherit = 'base.rest.service' _name = 'ping.service' _usage = 'ping' _collection = 'my_module.services' @restapi.method( [(["/pong"], "GET")], input_param=restapi.PydanticModel(PingMessage), output_param=restapi.PydanticModel(PingMessage), auth="public", ) def pong(self, ping_message): return PingMessage(message = "Received: " + ping_message.message)