askance--
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the
   dance.
    Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join
        the dance.
    Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join
        the dance.

`"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.

## Context

### Embedding a Java runtime in the Gradle distribution

There have been discussions on embedding a Java runtime in the Gradle distribution.
This would allow users to run Gradle without having to install a Java runtime beforehand.
This capability could help increase Gradle adoption outside of the JVM ecosystem.

Gradle can be invoked in different ways:

///

An environment variable (also known as "**env var**") is a variable that lives **outside** of the Python code, in the **operating system**, and could be read by your Python code (or by other programs as well).

Environment variables could be useful for handling application **settings**, as part of the **installation** of Python, etc.

## Create and Use Env Vars { #create-and-use-env-vars }

 *       suite()} method with {@code Suppress}. Would {@code FooTest} itself be suppressed, too?
 *   <li>In at least one case, a use of {@code sun.misc.FpUtils}, the test will not even
 *       <i>compile</i> against Android. Now, this might be an artifact of our build system, one
 *       that we could probably work around. Or we could manually strip the test from open-source

For example, you could declare that something could be a `str` or `None`:

```python
from typing import Union


def say_hi(name: Union[str, None]):
        print(f"Hi {name}!")
```

`typing` also has a shortcut to declare that something could be `None`, with `Optional`.

Here's a tip from my very **subjective** point of view:

# Stream JSON Lines { #stream-json-lines }

You could have a sequence of data that you would like to send in a "**stream**", you could do it with **JSON Lines**.

/// info

Added in FastAPI 0.134.0.

///

## What is a Stream? { #what-is-a-stream }

"**Streaming**" data means that your app will start sending data items to the client without waiting for the entire sequence of items to be ready.

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/// tip

With `pwdlib`, you could even configure it to be able to read passwords created by **Django**, a **Flask** security plug-in or many others.

So, you would be able to, for example, share the same data from a Django application in a database with a FastAPI application. Or gradually migrate a Django application using the same database.

# Behind a Proxy { #behind-a-proxy }

In many situations, you would use a **proxy** like Traefik or Nginx in front of your FastAPI app.

These proxies could handle HTTPS certificates and other things.

## Proxy Forwarded Headers { #proxy-forwarded-headers }

If it was in a type annotation we could have used the vertical bar, as:

```Python
some_variable: PlaneItem | CarItem
```

But if we put that in the assignment `response_model=PlaneItem | CarItem` we would get an error, because Python would try to perform an **invalid operation** between `PlaneItem` and `CarItem` instead of interpreting that as a type annotation.

Depending on your use case, you might prefer to use a different library, but if you asked me, I would probably suggest you try **Strawberry**.

Here's a small preview of how you could integrate Strawberry with FastAPI:

{* ../../docs_src/graphql_/tutorial001_py310.py hl[3,22,25] *}