## Overriding dependencies during testing { #overriding-dependencies-during-testing }

There are some scenarios where you might want to override a dependency during testing.

You don't want the original dependency to run (nor any of the sub-dependencies it might have).

### Suggest solutions { #suggest-solutions }

* After being able to understand the question, you can give them a possible **answer**.

* In many cases, it's better to understand their **underlying problem or use case**, because there might be a better way to solve it than what they are trying to do.

    eventSource: EventSource,
    response: Response,
  ) {
  }

  /**
   * Invoked when a new event has been sent to the client.
   *
   * @param id The `id` line of the event, might be null.
   * @param type The `event` line of the event, might be null.
   * @param data The `data` line of the event.
   */
  open fun onEvent(
    eventSource: EventSource,
    id: String?,
    type: String?,
    data: String,
  ) {
  }

                return message.contains("connection reset") || message.contains("network unreachable")
                        || message.contains("host unreachable") || message.contains("timeout");
            }
            return true; // Generic socket errors might be recoverable
        }

        // Generic IO exceptions might be recoverable

### Disable Response Model { #disable-response-model }

Continuing from the example above, you might not want to have the default data validation, documentation, filtering, etc. that is performed by FastAPI.

But you might want to still keep the return type annotation in the function to get the support from tools like editors and type checkers (e.g. mypy).

    }
    assertNull(
        "The array element immediately following the end of the collection should be nulled",
        array[getNumElements()]);
    // array[getNumElements() + 1] might or might not have been nulled
  }

  @CollectionFeature.Require(KNOWN_ORDER)
  public void testToArray_oversizedArray_ordered() {
    E[] array = getSubjectGenerator().createArray(getNumElements() + 2);

* **Modify some DNS records**.
    * For this, the renewal program needs to support the APIs of the DNS provider, so, depending on the DNS provider you are using, this might or might not be an option.
* **Run as a server** (at least during the certificate acquisition process) on the public IP address associated with the domain.
    * As we said above, only one process can be listening on a specific IP and port.

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[22] *}

/// tip

All this might seem contrived. And it might not be very clear how is it useful yet.

These examples are intentionally simple, but show how it all works.

In the chapters about security, there are utility functions that are implemented in this same way.

        assertNotNull(toString);
        assertTrue("toString should contain TimeZone ID", toString.contains(FessUserTimeZoneProcessProvider.centralTimeZone.getID()));
        // The provider's toString might not contain the exact class name
        // Just verify it's not null and contains some meaningful info
        assertTrue("toString should not be empty", toString.length() > 0);
    }

   * code would be responsible for populating a "real" {@code T} (which might still be the value
   * {@code null}!) before returning it to callers. Depending on how the code is structured, a
   * nullness analysis might not understand that the field has been populated. To avoid that problem
   * without having to add {@code @SuppressWarnings}, the code can call this method.
   *