I'll show you some concrete examples in the next chapters.

---

Then the next concepts to consider are all about the program running your actual API (e.g. Uvicorn).

## Program and Process

But I'll show you how to improve that next. 🤓

## Custom Operation IDs and Better Method Names

You can **modify** the way these operation IDs are **generated** to make them simpler and have **simpler method names** in the clients.

This decoupling of parts, and being a "microframework" that could be extended to cover exactly what is needed was a key feature that I wanted to keep.

Given the simplicity of Flask, it seemed like a good match for building APIs. The next thing to find was a "Django REST Framework" for Flask.

!!! check "Inspired **FastAPI** to"
    Be a micro-framework. Making it easy to mix and match the tools and parts needed.

But it's signed. So, when you receive a token that you emitted, you can verify that you actually emitted it.

That way, you can create a token with an expiration of, let's say, 1 week. And then when the user comes back the next day with the token, you know that user is still logged in to your system.

```Python hl_lines="3" title="app/routers/items.py"
{!../../../docs_src/bigger_applications/app/routers/items.py!}
```

#### How relative imports work

!!! tip
    If you know perfectly how imports work, continue to the next section below.

A single dot `.`, like in:

```Python
from .dependencies import get_token_header
```

would mean:

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

!!! note
    If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

## Motivation

Let's start with a simple example:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial001.py!}
```

Calling this program outputs:

```
John Doe
```

    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    content = response.json()
    assert "access_token" in content
    assert content["token_type"] == "bearer"


def test_login_incorrect_password():
    response = client.post(
        "/token", data={"username": "johndoe", "password": "incorrect"}
    )
    assert response.status_code == 400, response.text

    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text


@needs_py310
def test_geo_json(client: TestClient):
    response = client.post(
        "/items/",
        content='{"name": "Foo", "price": 50.5}',
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/geo+json"},
    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text


@needs_py310

    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text


def test_geo_json(client: TestClient):
    response = client.post(
        "/items/",
        content='{"name": "Foo", "price": 50.5}',
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/geo+json"},
    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text


def test_no_content_type_is_json(client: TestClient):

    assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"detail": "X-Token header invalid"}


def test_put(client: TestClient):
    response = client.put(
        "/items/plumbus?token=jessica", headers={"X-Token": "fake-super-secret-token"}
    )
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
    assert response.json() == {"item_id": "plumbus", "name": "The great Plumbus"}