You would probably want to have the thing in charge of restarting your application as an **external component**, because by that point, the same application with Uvicorn and Python already crashed, so there's nothing in the same code of the same app that could do anything about it.

### Example Tools to Restart Automatically

Then, you try with the old programmer's friend, editor autocompletion.

You type the first parameter of the function, `first_name`, then a dot (`.`) and then hit `Ctrl+Space` to trigger the completion.

But, sadly, you get nothing useful:

<img src="/img/python-types/image01.png">

### Add types

Let's modify a single line from the previous version.

We will change exactly this fragment, the parameters of the function, from:

# Using the Request Directly

Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.

The only thing the function returned by `GzipRequest.get_route_handler` does differently is convert the `Request` to a `GzipRequest`.

Doing this, our `GzipRequest` will take care of decompressing the data (if necessary) before passing it to our *path operations*.

After that, all of the processing logic is the same.

```Python hl_lines="4  14  16-22"
{!../../../docs_src/async_sql_databases/tutorial001.py!}
```

!!! tip
    Notice that all this code is pure SQLAlchemy Core.

    `databases` is not doing anything here yet.

## Import and set up `databases`

* Import `databases`.
* Create a `DATABASE_URL`.
* Create a `database` object.

```Python hl_lines="3  9  12"

* ⬆ Upgrade MkDocs Material and configs. PR [#4385](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4385) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

## 0.70.1

There's nothing interesting in this particular FastAPI release. It is mainly to enable/unblock the release of the next version of Pydantic that comes packed with features and improvements. 🤩

### Fixes

### `startup` and `shutdown` together

There's a high chance that the logic for your *startup* and *shutdown* is connected, you might want to start something and then finish it, acquire a resource and then release it, etc.

Doing that in separated functions that don't share logic or variables together is more difficult as you would need to store values in global variables or similar tricks.

            else:
                # It would probably make more sense for all response classes to have an
                # explicit default status_code, and to extract it from them, instead of
                # doing this inspection tricks, that would probably be in the future
                # TODO: probably make status_code a default class attribute for all
                # responses in Starlette

        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: coverage-html
          path: htmlcov

  # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/alls-green#why
  check:  # This job does nothing and is only used for the branch protection
    if: always()
    needs:
      - coverage-combine
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Dump GitHub context
        env:

You can create production applications with **FastAPI** right now (and you have probably been doing it for some time), you just have to make sure that you use a version that works correctly with the rest of your code.

## Pin your `fastapi` version