# Background Tasks { #background-tasks }

You can define background tasks to be run *after* returning a response.

This is useful for operations that need to happen after a request, but that the client doesn't really have to be waiting for the operation to complete before receiving the response.

This includes, for example:

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MockWebServer for JUnit 4
=========================

This module integrates mockwebserver3.MockWebServer with JUnit 4.

To use, first add this library as a test dependency:

```
testImplementation("com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver3-junit4:5.1.0")
```

Then in tests annotated `@org.junit.Test`, you may declare a field with the `@Rule` annotation:

```
@Rule public final MockWebServerRule serverRule = new MockWebServerRule();
```

#### Internal API changes

The `okhttp3.internal` package is not a published API and we change it frequently without warning.
Depending on code in this package is bad and will cause you problems with any upgrade! But the 4.x
will be particularly painful to naughty developers that import from this package! We changed a lot
to take advantage of sweet Kotlin features.

#### Credentials.basic()

    final String toString;

    ExpectedHashCode(byte[] bytes, int asInt, @Nullable Long asLong, String toString) {
      this.bytes = bytes;
      this.asInt = asInt;
      this.asLong = asLong;
      this.toString = toString;
    }
  }

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