If you look at it, *path operation functions* are declared to be used whenever a *path* and *operation* matches, and then **FastAPI** takes care of calling the function with the correct parameters, extracting the data from the request.

Actually, all (or most) of the web frameworks work in this same way.

You never call those functions directly. They are called by your framework (in this case, **FastAPI**).

## Mounting a **FastAPI** application { #mounting-a-fastapi-application }

"Mounting" means adding a completely "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling everything under that path, with the _path operations_ declared in that sub-application.

### Top-level application { #top-level-application }

        with:
          # For discussion, see the first setup-java block.
          # The publish-snapshot workflow doesn't run tests, so we don't have to care which version Maven would select for that step.
          java-version: 24
          distribution: 'temurin'
          server-id: sonatype-nexus-snapshots
          server-username: CI_DEPLOY_USERNAME

///

### What is "Mounting" { #what-is-mounting }

"Mounting" means adding a complete "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling all the sub-paths.

This is different from using an `APIRouter` as a mounted application is completely independent. The OpenAPI and docs from your main application won't include anything from the mounted application, etc.

        if (value instanceof Entity) {
            data.register(key, BeanUtil.copyBeanToNewMap(value));
        } else {
            if (value instanceof final Collection<?> coll && !coll.isEmpty()) {
                // care performance for List that the most frequent pattern
                final Object first = coll instanceof List<?> ? ((List<?>) coll).get(0) : coll.iterator().next();
                if (first instanceof Entity) {

You can use multiple worker processes with the `--workers` CLI option with the `fastapi` or `uvicorn` commands to take advantage of **multi-core CPUs**, to run **multiple processes in parallel**.

You could use these tools and ideas if you are setting up **your own deployment system** while taking care of the other deployment concepts yourself.

Most of the standard headers are separated by a "hyphen" character, also known as the "minus symbol" (`-`).

But a variable like `user-agent` is invalid in Python.

So, by default, `Header` will convert the parameter names characters from underscore (`_`) to hyphen (`-`) to extract and document the headers.

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[9] *}

In this case, **FastAPI** won't ever touch or care about `__init__`, we will use it directly in our code.

## Create an instance { #create-an-instance }

We could create an instance of this class with:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[18] *}

    val timeout: Int = 180,
    val maxParallelForks: Int = 4,
) {
    // Include cross version tests, these take care of selecting a very small set of versions to cover when run as part of this stage, including the current version
    QUICK(true, true, true, 120, 4),

    // Include cross version tests, these take care of selecting a very small set of versions to cover when run as part of this stage, including the current version

# Sub-dependencies { #sub-dependencies }

You can create dependencies that have **sub-dependencies**.

They can be as **deep** as you need them to be.

**FastAPI** will take care of solving them.

## First dependency "dependable" { #first-dependency-dependable }

You could create a first dependency ("dependable") like:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial005_an_py310.py hl[8:9] *}