For active-active replication, automatic failover occurs on `GET/HEAD` operations if object or object version requested qualifies for replication and is missing on one site, but present on the other. This allows the applications to take full advantage of two-way replication even before the two sites get fully synced.

    /**
     * Retrieve all addresses of a host by it's address. NetBIOS hosts can
     * have many names for a given IP address. The name and IP address make the
     * NetBIOS address. This provides a way to retrieve the other names for a
     * host with the same IP address.
     *
     * @param addr
     *            the address to query
     * @return resolved addresses
     * @throws UnknownHostException

Import `File` and `UploadFile` from `fastapi`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_files/tutorial001_an_py39.py hl[3] *}

## Define `File` Parameters { #define-file-parameters }

Create file parameters the same way you would for `Body` or `Form`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_files/tutorial001_an_py39.py hl[9] *}

/// info

`File` is a class that inherits directly from `Form`.

      Runnable task, @ParametricNullness T result);

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>All elements in the returned list must be {@link ListenableFuture} instances. The easiest
   * way to obtain a {@code List<ListenableFuture<T>>} from this method is an unchecked (but safe)
   * cast:
   *
   * <pre>
   *   {@code @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // guaranteed by invokeAll contract}

   * or extract a variable, and put the suppression on that. However, a local variable typically
   * doesn't work: Because nullness analyses typically infer the nullness of local variables,
   * there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the
   * analysis that that means "plain {@code T}" rather than the inferred type {@code @Nullable T}.

/// warning

The recommended way to handle the *startup* and *shutdown* is using the `lifespan` parameter of the `FastAPI` app as described above. If you provide a `lifespan` parameter, `startup` and `shutdown` event handlers will no longer be called. It's all `lifespan` or all events, not both.

You can probably skip this part.

///

# Global Dependencies { #global-dependencies }

For some types of applications you might want to add dependencies to the whole application.

Similar to the way you can [add `dependencies` to the *path operation decorators*](dependencies-in-path-operation-decorators.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, you can add them to the `FastAPI` application.

In that case, they will be applied to all the *path operations* in the application:

# Response Status Code { #response-status-code }

The same way you can specify a response model, you can also declare the HTTP status code used for the response with the parameter `status_code` in any of the *path operations*:

* `@app.get()`
* `@app.post()`
* `@app.put()`
* `@app.delete()`
* etc.

{* ../../docs_src/response_status_code/tutorial001.py hl[6] *}

/// note

    url: https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/categories/questions
  - name: Feature Request
    about: To suggest an idea or ask about a feature, please start with a question saying what you would like to achieve. There might be a way to do it already.
    url: https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/categories/questions
  - name: Show and tell
    about: Show what you built with FastAPI or to be used with FastAPI.

```

The parameter values in your function will be:

* `skip=20`: because you set it in the URL
* `limit=10`: because that was the default value

## Optional parameters { #optional-parameters }

The same way, you can declare optional query parameters, by setting their default to `None`:

{* ../../docs_src/query_params/tutorial002_py310.py hl[7] *}