It had automatic data validation, data serialization and OpenAPI schema generation based on the same type hints in several places.

## Be Nice

First of all, be nice. 😊

You probably are super nice if you were added to the team, but it's worth mentioning it. 🤓

### When Things are Difficult

When things are great, everything is easier, so that doesn't need much instructions. But when things are difficult, here are some guidelines.

* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system.
    * This doesn't refer to the file, nor to the code, it refers **specifically** to the thing that is being **executed** and managed by the operating system.

This is preferred for entirely new things:

```groovy
public interface NewThing {
    Property<String> getSomeProperty()
}

// in plugin
newThing = objects.newInstance(NewThing.class)
newThing.convention("some-value")
```

This is acceptable for existing things:

```groovy
public interface ExistingThing {
    Property<String> getSomeProperty()

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## HTML "abbr" elements { #html-abbr-elements }

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Here some things wrapped in HTML "abbr" elements (Some are invented):

### The abbr gives a full phrase { #the-abbr-gives-a-full-phrase }

* <abbr title="Getting Things Done">GTD</abbr>
* <abbr title="less than"><code>lt</code></abbr>
* <abbr title="XML Web Token">XWT</abbr>

Activating a virtual environment also changes a couple of other things, but this is one of the most important things it does.

## Checking a Virtual Environment { #checking-a-virtual-environment }

When you check if a virtual environment is active, for example with:

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     * parameters, and as it turns out Firefox and Chrome actually do rather different things, and
     * both say in their comments that they're not really sure what the right approach is. We go
     * with Chrome's behavior (which also experimentally seems to match what IE does), but if you
     * actually want to have a good chance of things working, please avoid double-quotes, newlines,
     * percent signs, and the like in your field names.

### Tests { #tests }

* Help me check that the PR has **tests**.

* Check that the tests **fail** before the PR. 🚨

* Then check that the tests **pass** after the PR. ✅

* Many PRs don't have tests, you can **remind** them to add tests, or you can even **suggest** some tests yourself. That's one of the things that consume most time and you can help a lot with that.

And also that your code will be very compatible with many other Python tools and libraries. 🚀

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## Type hints in **FastAPI** { #type-hints-in-fastapi }

**FastAPI** takes advantage of these type hints to do several things.

With **FastAPI** you declare parameters with type hints and you get:

* **Editor support**.
* **Type checks**.

...and **FastAPI** uses the same declarations to:

The JWT specification says that there's a key `sub`, with the subject of the token.

It's optional to use it, but that's where you would put the user's identification, so we are using it here.

JWT might be used for other things apart from identifying a user and allowing them to perform operations directly on your API.

For example, you could identify a "car" or a "blog post".