There have been many tools created before that have helped inspire its creation.

I have been avoiding the creation of a new framework for several years. First I tried to solve all the features covered by **FastAPI** using many different frameworks, plug-ins, and tools.

all the attributes, you need to have a model with all the attributes marked as optional (with default values or `None`).

    To distinguish from the models with all optional values for **updates** and models with required values for **creation**, you can use the ideas described in [Extra Models](extra-models.md){.internal-link target=_blank}....

## The normal process

The normal (default) process, is as follows.

A `FastAPI` application (instance) has an `.openapi()` method that is expected to return the OpenAPI schema.

As part of the application object creation, a *path operation* for `/openapi.json` (or for whatever you set your `openapi_url`) is registered.

It just returns a JSON response with the result of the application's `.openapi()` method.

There have been many tools created before that have helped inspire its creation.

I have been avoiding the creation of a new framework for several years. First I tried to solve all the features covered by **FastAPI** using many different frameworks, plug-ins, and tools.

## FastAPI features

**FastAPI** gives you the following:

### Based on open standards

* <a href="https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification" class="external-link" target="_blank"><strong>OpenAPI</strong></a> for API creation, including declarations of <abbr title="also known as: endpoints, routes">path</abbr> <abbr title="also known as HTTP methods, as POST, GET, PUT, DELETE">operations</abbr>, parameters, body requests, security, etc.

        self.call = call
        self.use_cache = use_cache
        # Store the path to be able to re-generate a dependable from it in overrides
        self.path = path
        # Save the cache key at creation to optimize performance

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## Intro

**FastAPI** n'existerait pas sans les précédentes contributions d'autres projets.

De nombreux outils ont été créés auparavant et ont contribué à inspirer sa création.

J'ai évité la création d'un nouveau framework pendant plusieurs années. J'ai d'abord essayé de combler toutes les
fonctionnalités couvertes par **FastAPI** en utilisant de nombreux frameworks, plug-ins et outils différents.

# Test Client - `TestClient`

You can use the `TestClient` class to test FastAPI applications without creating an actual HTTP and socket connection, just communicating directly with the FastAPI code.

Read more about it in the [FastAPI docs for Testing](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/testing/).

You can import it directly from `fastapi.testclient`:

```python
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
```

    tmp_path = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("data")
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(tmp_path)
    test_db = Path("./test.db")
    if test_db.is_file():  # pragma: nocover
        test_db.unlink()
    # Import while creating the client to create the DB after starting the test session
    from docs_src.sql_databases.sql_app.tests import test_sql_app

    # Ensure import side effects are re-executed
    importlib.reload(test_sql_app)