* `DELETE`

...and the more exotic ones:

* `OPTIONS`
* `HEAD`
* `PATCH`
* `TRACE`

In the HTTP protocol, you can communicate to each path using one (or more) of these "methods".

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When building APIs, you normally use these specific HTTP methods to perform a specific action.

Normally you use:

* `POST`: to create data.
* `GET`: to read data.
* `PUT`: to update data.

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Utilities necessary for working with libraries that supply plain {@link Future} instances. Note
 * that, whenever possible, it is strongly preferred to modify those libraries to return {@code
 * ListenableFuture} directly.
 *
 * <p>For interoperability between {@code ListenableFuture} and <b>{@code CompletableFuture}</b>,

    return new ValueGraphBuilder<>(false);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@link ValueGraphBuilder} initialized with all properties queryable from {@code
   * graph}.
   *
   * <p>The "queryable" properties are those that are exposed through the {@link ValueGraph}
   * interface, such as {@link ValueGraph#isDirected()}. Other properties, such as {@link
   * #expectedNodeCount(int)}, are not set in the new builder.
   */

     *
     * @return the ordered list of the flattened dependency nodes
     */
    @Nonnull
    List<Node> getNodes();

    /**
     * Returns the file paths of all dependencies, regardless of which tool option those paths should be placed on.
     * The returned list may contain a mix of Java class path, Java module path, and other types of path elements.

     * operation on the {@link Executor}s specified by calls to {@link
     * DeferredCloser#eventuallyClose(Object, Executor)}.
     *
     * <p>If any such calls specified {@link MoreExecutors#directExecutor()}, those objects will be
     * closed synchronously.
     *
     * <p>Idempotent: objects will be closed at most once.
     */
    public void closeAsync() {
      closingFuture.close();
    }
  }

  /**

So, even with the code above that doesn't use Pydantic explicitly, FastAPI is using Pydantic to convert those standard dataclasses to Pydantic's own flavor of dataclasses.

And of course, it supports the same:

* data validation
* data serialization
* data documentation, etc.

        return createPathMatcher(baseDirectory, includes, excludes, false);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a path matcher that includes all files except those matching the exclude patterns.
     * <p>
     * This is equivalent to calling {@link #createPathMatcher(Path, Collection, Collection, boolean)}
     * with {@code includes = null}.
     *

   * expressions. If those circumstances don't apply, you probably don't need to use this; subclass
   * {@code TreeTraverser} and implement its {@link #children} method directly.
   *
   * @since 20.0
   * @deprecated Use {@link com.google.common.graph.Traverser#forTree} instead. If you are using a
   *     lambda, these methods have exactly the same signature.
   */
  @Deprecated

It will also **download** files for other packages that FastAPI depends on.

Then it will **extract** all those files and put them in a directory in your computer.

By default, it will put those files downloaded and extracted in the directory that comes with your Python installation, that's the **global environment**.

* `C:\Program Files\Python312\Scripts`
* `C:\Program Files\Python312`
* `C:\Windows\System32`

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When you type a **command** in the terminal, the operating system **looks for** the program in **each of those directories** listed in the `PATH` environment variable.

For example, when you type `python` in the terminal, the operating system looks for a program called `python` in the **first directory** in that list.