# General - How To - Recipes

Here are several pointers to other places in the docs, for general or frequent questions.

## Filter Data - Security

To ensure that you don't return more data than you should, read the docs for [Tutorial - Response Model - Return Type](../tutorial/response-model.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Documentation Tags - OpenAPI

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    * Otherwise, you might have to stop the TLS Termination Proxy momentarily, start the renewal program to acquire the certificates, then configure them with the TLS Termination Proxy, and then restart the TLS Termination Proxy. This is not ideal, as your app(s) will not be available during the time that the TLS Termination Proxy is off.

```Python hl_lines="31-33"
{!../../../docs_src/nosql_databases/tutorial001.py!}
```

!!! note
    Notice that we have a `hashed_password` and a `type` field that will be stored in the database.

    But it is not part of the general `User` model (the one we will return in the *path operation*).

## Get the user

Now create a function that will:

* Take a username.
* Generate a document ID from it.
* Get the document with that ID.

### Run Automatically on Startup

In general, you will probably want the server program (e.g. Uvicorn) to be started automatically on server startup, and without needing any **human intervention**, to have a process always running with your API (e.g. Uvicorn running your FastAPI app).

* 🌐 Add Chinese translation for `docs/zh/docs/how-to/index.md` and `docs/zh/docs/how-to/general.md`. PR [#11443](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11443) by [@billzhong](https://github.com/billzhong).

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

In general, ASGI middlewares are classes that expect to receive an ASGI app as the first argument.

So, in the documentation for third-party ASGI middlewares they will probably tell you to do something like:

```Python

The word "**server**" is commonly used to refer to both the remote/cloud computer (the physical or virtual machine) and also the program that is running on that machine (e.g. Uvicorn).

Just keep in mind that when you read "server" in general, it could refer to one of those two things.

```Python hl_lines="17"
{!../../../docs_src/path_params/tutorial005.py!}
```

#### Get the *enumeration value*

You can get the actual value (a `str` in this case) using `model_name.value`, or in general, `your_enum_member.value`:

```Python hl_lines="20"
{!../../../docs_src/path_params/tutorial005.py!}
```

!!! tip
    You could also access the value `"lenet"` with `ModelName.lenet.value`.

We will probably still want to keep it for OpenAPI in general, as that will ensure that the operation IDs are **unique**.

But for the generated client we could **modify** the OpenAPI operation IDs right before generating the clients, just to make those method names nicer and **cleaner**.