* ⬆ Bump dawidd6/action-download-artifact from 2.9.0 to 2.21.1. PR [#5130](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5130) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).
* ⬆ Bump actions/setup-python from 2 to 4. PR [#5129](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5129) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).

## First Steps

Let's see a very simple example. It will be so simple that it is not very useful, for now.

But this way we can focus on how the **Dependency Injection** system works.

### Create a dependency, or "dependable"

Let's first focus on the dependency.

It is just a function that can take all the same parameters that a *path operation function* can take:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial001_an_py310.py hl[8:9] *}

def get_flat_dependant(
    dependant: Dependant,
    *,
    skip_repeats: bool = False,
    visited: Optional[List[CacheKey]] = None,
) -> Dependant:
    if visited is None:
        visited = []
    visited.append(dependant.cache_key)

    flat_dependant = Dependant(
        path_params=dependant.path_params.copy(),
        query_params=dependant.query_params.copy(),

## Dependency Injection

Using `BackgroundTasks` also works with the dependency injection system, you can declare a parameter of type `BackgroundTasks` at multiple levels: in a *path operation function*, in a dependency (dependable), in a sub-dependency, etc.

**FastAPI** knows what to do in each case and how to reuse the same object, so that all the background tasks are merged together and are run in the background afterwards: