## Adding ASGI middlewares { #adding-asgi-middlewares }

As **FastAPI** is based on Starlette and implements the <abbr title="Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface">ASGI</abbr> specification, you can use any ASGI middleware.

A middleware doesn't have to be made for FastAPI or Starlette to work, as long as it follows the ASGI spec.

## ASGI Servers { #asgi-servers }

Let's go a little deeper into the details.

FastAPI uses a standard for building Python web frameworks and servers called <abbr title="Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface">ASGI</abbr>. FastAPI is an ASGI web framework.

* <a href="https://tartiflette.io/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Tartiflette</a>
    * With <a href="https://tartiflette.github.io/tartiflette-asgi/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Tartiflette ASGI</a> to provide ASGI integration
* <a href="https://graphene-python.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Graphene</a>

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If your application relies on lifespan events, the `AsyncClient` won't trigger these events. To ensure they are triggered, use `LifespanManager` from <a href="https://github.com/florimondmanca/asgi-lifespan#usage" class="external-link" target="_blank">florimondmanca/asgi-lifespan</a>.

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## Other Asynchronous Function Calls { #other-asynchronous-function-calls }

/// note | Technical Details

ASGI is a new "standard" being developed by Django core team members. It is still not a "Python standard" (a PEP), although they are in the process of doing that.

Nevertheless, it is already being used as a "standard" by several tools. This greatly improves interoperability, as you could switch Uvicorn for any other ASGI server (like Daphne or Hypercorn), or you could add ASGI compatible tools, like `python-socketio`.

## Technical Details { #technical-details }

Just a technical detail for the curious nerds. 🤓

Underneath, in the ASGI technical specification, this is part of the <a href="https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specs/lifespan.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">Lifespan Protocol</a>, and it defines events called `startup` and `shutdown`.

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/// note | Technical Details

The ASGI specification defines a `root_path` for this use case.

And the `--root-path` command line option provides that `root_path`.

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### Checking the current `root_path` { #checking-the-current-root-path }

You can get the current `root_path` used by your application for each request, it is part of the `scope` dictionary (that's part of the ASGI spec).

### Technical Details: `root_path` { #technical-details-root-path }

When you mount a sub-application as described above, FastAPI will take care of communicating the mount path for the sub-application using a mechanism from the ASGI specification called a `root_path`.

That way, the sub-application will know to use that path prefix for the docs UI.

이러한 작업을 별도의 함수로 처리하면 서로 로직이나 변수를 공유하지 않기 때문에 더 어려워집니다. 값들을 전역 변수에 저장하거나 비슷한 트릭을 사용해야 할 수 있습니다.

그렇기 때문에 위에서 설명한 대로 `lifespan`을 사용하는 것이 권장됩니다.

## 기술적 세부사항

호기심 많은 분들을 위한 기술적인 세부사항입니다. 🤓

ASGI 기술 사양에 따르면, 이는 <a href="https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specs/lifespan.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">Lifespan Protocol</a>의 일부이며, `startup`과 `shutdown`이라는 이벤트를 정의합니다.

/// info | 정보

A `Request` also has a `request.receive`, that's a function to "receive" the body of the request.

The `scope` `dict` and `receive` function are both part of the ASGI specification.

And those two things, `scope` and `receive`, are what is needed to create a new `Request` instance.