# Reference - Code API

Here's the reference or code API, the classes, functions, parameters, attributes, and
all the FastAPI parts you can use in your applications.

If you want to **learn FastAPI** you are much better off reading the

## Dependencies for groups of *path operations*

Now, whenever a browser is creating a user with a password, the API will return the same password in the response.

In this case, it might not be a problem, because it's the same user sending the password.

But if we use the same model for another *path operation*, we could be sending our user's passwords to every client.

!!! danger

### Create Pydantic *models* / schemas for reading / returning

Now create Pydantic *models* (schemas) that will be used when reading data, when returning it from the API.

For example, before creating an item, we don't know what will be the ID assigned to it, but when reading it (when returning it from the API) we will already know its ID.

And you want to have a way for the frontend to authenticate with the backend, using a **username** and **password**.

We can use **OAuth2** to build that with **FastAPI**.

But let's save you the time of reading the full long specification just to find those little pieces of information you need.

Let's use the tools provided by **FastAPI** to handle security.

## How it looks

### <a href="https://webargs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Webargs</a>

Another big feature required by APIs is <abbr title="reading and converting to Python data">parsing</abbr> data from incoming requests.

Webargs is a tool that was made to provide that on top of several frameworks, including Flask.

### Creating the `Settings` only once with `lru_cache`

Reading a file from disk is normally a costly (slow) operation, so you probably want to do it only once and then re-use the same settings object, instead of reading it for each request.

But every time we do:

```Python
Settings()
```

## 🔑 👨‍💼

### ⚫️❔ "🔑 👨‍💼"

"🔑 👨‍💼" 🙆 👈 🐍 🎚 👈 👆 💪 ⚙️ `with` 📄.

🖼, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files" class="external-link" target="_blank">👆 💪 ⚙️ `with` ✍ 📁</a>:

```Python
with open("./somefile.txt") as f:
    contents = f.read()
    print(contents)
```

!!! check "😮 **FastAPI** "
    ⚙️ 📟 🔬 "🔗" 👈 🚚 💽 🆎 & 🔬, 🔁.

### <a href="https://webargs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Webarg</a>

➕1️⃣ 🦏 ⚒ ✔ 🔗 <abbr title="reading and converting to Python data">✍</abbr> 📊 ⚪️➡️ 📨 📨.

Webarg 🧰 👈 ⚒ 🚚 👈 🔛 🔝 📚 🛠️, 🔌 🏺.

⚫️ ⚙️ 🍭 🔘 💽 🔬. &amp; ⚫️ ✍ 🎏 👩‍💻.

⚫️ 👑 🧰 &amp; 👤 ✔️ ⚙️ ⚫️ 📚 💁‍♂️, ⏭ ✔️ **FastAPI**.

!!! info

    ```Python hl_lines="9  14"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial006.py!}
    ```

## Dependencies for a group of *path operations*