### 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.

You can read more about this in the [Advanced User Guide](../advanced/index.md).

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		{
			name:     "1",
			metadata: map[string]string{"content-type": "application/octet-stream", "etag": "de75a98baf2c6aef435b57dd0fc33c86", "x-amz-storage-class": "STANDARD"},
			want:     map[string]string{"content-type": "application/octet-stream", "etag": "de75a98baf2c6aef435b57dd0fc33c86"},
		},
		{
			name:     "2",

     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.
     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.
     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.

                                    "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                                },
                                "422": {
                                    "description": "Validation Error",
                                    "content": {
                                        "application/json": {
                                            "schema": {

                                "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                            },
                            "422": {
                                "description": "Validation Error",
                                "content": {
                                    "application/json": {
                                        "schema": {

     * @param contextPath the context path for the web application
     */
    public FessBoot(final int port, final String contextPath) {
        super(port, contextPath);
    }

    /**
     * Prepares and returns the web application path.
     * Checks for the fess.webapp.path system property first, then falls back to the parent implementation.
     *
     * @return the web application path
     */
    @Override

                                "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                            },
                            "422": {
                                "description": "Validation Error",
                                "content": {
                                    "application/json": {
                                        "schema": {

    }

    /**
     * Returns the application type identifier for this Fess application.
     *
     * @return the application type string "FES"
     */
    @Override
    protected String myAppType() { // for framework
        return APP_TYPE;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the user type identifier for this application.
     *

For some types of applications you might want to add dependencies to the whole application.

Similar to the way you can [add `dependencies` to the *path operation decorators*](dependencies-in-path-operation-decorators.md), you can add them to the `FastAPI` application.

In that case, they will be applied to all the *path operations* in the application:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial012_an_py310.py hl[17] *}