As part of that, I needed to investigate, test and use many alternatives.

The history of **FastAPI** is in great part the history of its predecessors.

As said in the section [Alternatives](alternatives.md){.internal-link target=_blank}:

<blockquote markdown="1">

**FastAPI** wouldn't exist if not for the previous work of others.

Up to now, you have been using common data types, like:

* `int`
* `float`
* `str`
* `bool`

But you can also use more complex data types.

And you will still have the same features as seen up to now:

* Great editor support.
* Data conversion from incoming requests.
* Data conversion for response data.
* Data validation.
* Automatic annotation and documentation.

## Other data types

@Tag("Slowish")
class RelayTest {
  @TempDir
  var tempDir: File? = null
  private val executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(threadFactory("RelayTest"))
  private val metadata: ByteString = "great metadata!".encodeUtf8()
  private lateinit var file: File

  @BeforeEach
  fun setUp() {
    file = File(tempDir, "test")
  }

  @AfterEach
  fun tearDown() {
    executor.shutdown()
  }

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image02.png">

!!! note
    It doesn't matter what you type in the form, it won't work yet. But we'll get there.

This is of course not the frontend for the final users, but it's a great automatic tool to document interactively all your API.

It can be used by the frontend team (that can also be yourself).

It can be used by third party applications and systems.

   */
  @ExperimentalOkHttpApi
  fun setPolicy(
    address: Address,
    policy: AddressPolicy,
  ) {
    delegate.setPolicy(address, policy)
  }

  /**
   * A policy for how the pool should treat a specific address.
   */
  class AddressPolicy(
    /**
     * How many concurrent calls should be possible to make at any time.

  // time for any reason.  Missed jobs executions will be counted as failed ones.
  // +optional
  optional int64 startingDeadlineSeconds = 2;

  // Specifies how to treat concurrent executions of a Job.
  // Valid values are:
  //
  // - "Allow" (default): allows CronJobs to run concurrently;
  // - "Forbid": forbids concurrent runs, skipping next run if previous run hasn't finished yet;