# Repository Management

Here's a short description of how the FastAPI repository is managed and maintained.

## Owner

I, [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo), am the creator and owner of the FastAPI repository. 🤓

I normally give the final review to each PR before merging them. I make the final decisions on the project, I'm the [<abbr title="Benevolent Dictator For Life">BDFL</abbr>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life). 😅

## Team

# FastAPI in Containers - Docker { #fastapi-in-containers-docker }

When deploying FastAPI applications a common approach is to build a **Linux container image**. It's normally done using [**Docker**](https://www.docker.com/). You can then deploy that container image in one of a few possible ways.

Using Linux containers has several advantages including **security**, **replicability**, **simplicity**, and others.

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# WebSockets

When defining WebSockets, you normally declare a parameter of type `WebSocket` and with it you can read data from the client and send data to it.

Read more about it in the [FastAPI docs for WebSockets](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/websockets/)

It is provided directly by Starlette, but you can import it from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocket
```

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## Security - HTTPS { #security-https }

In the [previous chapter about HTTPS](https.md) we learned about how HTTPS provides encryption for your API.

We also saw that HTTPS is normally provided by a component **external** to your application server, a **TLS Termination Proxy**.

## About "Form Fields" { #about-form-fields }

The way HTML forms (`<form></form>`) sends the data to the server normally uses a "special" encoding for that data, it's different from JSON.

**FastAPI** will make sure to read that data from the right place instead of JSON.

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Data from forms is normally encoded using the "media type" `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.

# Return a Response Directly { #return-a-response-directly }

When you create a **FastAPI** *path operation* you can normally return any data from it: a `dict`, a `list`, a Pydantic model, a database model, etc.

If you declare a [Response Model](../tutorial/response-model.md) FastAPI will use it to serialize the data to JSON, using Pydantic.

And then you can set the `status_code` in that *temporal* response object.

{* ../../docs_src/response_change_status_code/tutorial001_py310.py hl[1,9,12] *}

And then you can return any object you need, as you normally would (a `dict`, a database model, etc).

And if you declared a `response_model`, it will still be used to filter and convert the object you returned.

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