It would actually be common to use Requests *inside* of a FastAPI application.

But still, FastAPI got quite some inspiration from Requests.

**Requests** is a library to *interact* with APIs (as a client), while **FastAPI** is a library to *build* APIs (as a server).

They are, more or less, at opposite ends, complementing each other.

!!! check
    So, with the same Python type declaration, **FastAPI** gives you data validation.

    Notice that the error also clearly states exactly the point where the validation didn't pass.

    This is incredibly helpful while developing and debugging code that interacts with your API.

## Documentation

and then it won't include it in the OpenAPI schema.

## Mounting a sub-application

If you need to mount a sub-application (as described in [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}) while also using a proxy with `root_path`, you can do it normally, as you would expect.

    client to send the form field `grant_type` with the value `"password"`, which
    is required in the OAuth2 specification (it seems that for no particular reason),
    while for `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm` `grant_type` is optional.

    Read more about it in the
    [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/security/simple-oauth2/).

```
https://example.com/items/foo
```

...the path would be:

```
/items/foo
```

!!! info
    A "path" is also commonly called an "endpoint" or a "route".

While building an API, the "path" is the main way to separate "concerns" and "resources".

#### Operation

"Operation" here refers to one of the HTTP "methods".

One of:

* `POST`
* `GET`
* `PUT`

* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system, using the CPU, and storing things on memory. This is also called a **process**.

### What is a Process

The word **process** is normally used in a more specific way, only referring to the thing that is running in the operating system (like in the last point above):

* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system.

def get_discussion_nodes(settings: Settings) -> List[DiscussionsNode]:
    discussion_nodes: List[DiscussionsNode] = []
    discussion_edges = get_graphql_question_discussion_edges(settings=settings)

    while discussion_edges:
        for discussion_edge in discussion_edges:
            discussion_nodes.append(discussion_edge.node)
        last_edge = discussion_edges[-1]

# Bigger Applications - Multiple Files

If you are building an application or a web API, it's rarely the case that you can put everything on a single file.

**FastAPI** provides a convenience tool to structure your application while keeping all the flexibility.

!!! info
    If you come from Flask, this would be the equivalent of Flask's Blueprints.

## An example file structure

Let's say you have a file structure like this:

```
.
├── app

    tmp_path = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("data")
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(tmp_path)
    test_db = Path("./sql_app.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 import main

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

    tmp_path = tmp_path_factory.mktemp("data")
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(tmp_path)
    test_db = Path("./sql_app.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_py310 import alt_main

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