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Hi I'm coming from FastAPI which has a dedicated API key backend. In my Litestar app I use a simple guard that looks like this:

async def api_key_guard(
    connection: ASGIConnection,
    _: BaseRouteHandler
) -> None:
    api_key = connection.headers.get("X-API-Key")
    if api_key != API_KEY:
        raise NotAuthorizedException("Invalid API key")```

I like that this gets to the point with minimal boilerplate but the downside is that in the Swagger documentation, there is no authorization lock as in FastAPI.

If I use JWT security to implement this, will the Swagger docs lock down my routes? If so, what would be a straightforward way to translate my basic guard into one of Litestar's security backends?

#API Key security