> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives

I have been creating APIs with complex requirements for several years (Machine Learning, distributed systems, asynchronous jobs, NoSQL databases, etc), leading several teams of developers.

  static final int SAMPLE_MASK = 0xFF;

  /**
   * Compute arrays of valid unicode text, and store it in 3 forms: byte arrays, Strings, and
   * StringBuilders (in a CharSequence[] to make it a little harder for the JVM).
   */
  @BeforeExperiment
  void setUp() {
    final long seed = 99;
    final Random rnd = new Random(seed);
    strings = new String[SAMPLES];
    for (int i = 0; i < SAMPLES; i++) {

  static final int SAMPLE_MASK = 0xFF;

  /**
   * Compute arrays of valid unicode text, and store it in 3 forms: byte arrays, Strings, and
   * StringBuilders (in a CharSequence[] to make it a little harder for the JVM).
   */
  @BeforeExperiment
  void setUp() {
    final long seed = 99;
    final Random rnd = new Random(seed);
    strings = new String[SAMPLES];
    for (int i = 0; i < SAMPLES; i++) {

# /---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# littleAdjustmentMap: (NotRequired - Default map:{})
#
# The various settings about a little adjustment.
#
# o isAvailableAddingSchemaToTableSqlName: (NotRequired - Default false)
# o isAvailableAddingCatalogToTableSqlName: (NotRequired - Default false)
# o isAvailableDatabaseDependency: (NotRequired - Default false)
# o isAvailableDatabaseNativeJDBC: (NotRequired - Default false)

        That's a lot of work they are doing, but if more FastAPI users came to help others like them just a little bit more, it would be much less effort for them (and you and me 😅).

        By asking questions in a structured way (following this) it will be much easier to help you.

        Mac mac = Mac.getInstance("HmacMD5");
        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        mac.init(key);
        byte[] dk = mac.doFinal(MD5_CONSTANT);
        try {
            // little endian
            md.update((byte) ( ms_usage & 0xFF ));
            md.update((byte) ( ( ms_usage >> 8 ) & 0xFF ));
            md.update((byte) ( ( ms_usage >> 16 ) & 0xFF ));

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It is **HIGHLY encouraged** that you write or copy the code, edit it and run it locally.

Using it in your editor is what really shows you the benefits of FastAPI, seeing how little code you have to write, all the type checks, autocompletion, etc.

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## Install FastAPI

The first step is to install FastAPI.

///

/// info

To declare headers, you need to use `Header`, because otherwise the parameters would be interpreted as query parameters.

///

## Automatic conversion

`Header` has a little extra functionality on top of what `Path`, `Query` and `Cookie` provide.

Most of the standard headers are separated by a "hyphen" character, also known as the "minus symbol" (`-`).

You could use that command for example to start your **FastAPI** app in a container, in a server, etc.

## ASGI Servers

Let's go a little deeper into the details.

FastAPI uses a standard for building Python web frameworks and servers called <abbr title="Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface">ASGI</abbr>. FastAPI is an ASGI web framework.

Here's where it becomes important to be able to declare <abbr title="greater than"><code>gt</code></abbr> and not just <abbr title="greater than or equal"><code>ge</code></abbr>. As with it you can require, for example, that a value must be greater than `0`, even if it is less than `1`.

So, `0.5` would be a valid value. But `0.0` or `0` would not.

And the same for <abbr title="less than"><code>lt</code></abbr>.

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