# Environment Variables { #environment-variables }

/// tip

If you already know what "environment variables" are and how to use them, feel free to skip this.

///

An environment variable (also known as "**env var**") is a variable that lives **outside** of the Python code, in the **operating system**, and could be read by your Python code (or by other programs as well).

   * omitted} or {@linkplain #withPadChar(char) replaced}.
   *
   * <p>No line feeds are added by default, as per <a
   * href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-3.1">RFC 4648 section 3.1</a>, Line Feeds in
   * Encoded Data. Line feeds may be added using {@link #withSeparator(String, int)}.
   */
  public static BaseEncoding base64() {
    return BASE64;
  }

///

## Write the callback documentation code { #write-the-callback-documentation-code }

This code won't be executed in your app, we only need it to *document* how that *external API* should look like.

But, you already know how to easily create automatic documentation for an API with **FastAPI**.

///

/// warning

These are very technical details about the standards **JSON Schema** and **OpenAPI**.

If the ideas above already work for you, that might be enough, and you probably don't need these details, feel free to skip them.

///

Before OpenAPI 3.1.0, OpenAPI used an older and modified version of **JSON Schema**.

Sie können auch eine Response deklarieren, die ein beliebiges `dict` zurückgibt, indem Sie nur die Typen der Schlüssel und Werte ohne ein Pydantic-Modell deklarieren.

Dies ist nützlich, wenn Sie die gültigen Feld-/Attributnamen nicht im Voraus kennen (die für ein Pydantic-Modell benötigt werden würden).

In diesem Fall können Sie `dict` verwenden:

{* ../../docs_src/extra_models/tutorial005_py310.py hl[6] *}

 * 3 to 4 characters. This would allow:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>A full 32-bit offset for the String Pool (using 2 characters).
 *   <li>A full 16-bit child count (using the freed bits from the 4th character).
 * </ul>
 */
@GwtCompatible
public final class PublicSuffixTrie {

  /** Each node in the trie takes up 3 characters. */
  static final int NODE_SIZE = 3;

import (
	"internal/reflectlite"
	"unsafe"
)

// Arena represents a collection of Go values allocated and freed together.
// Arenas are useful for improving efficiency as they may be freed back to
// the runtime manually, though any memory obtained from freed arenas must
// not be accessed once that happens. An Arena is automatically freed once
// it is no longer referenced, so it must be kept alive (see runtime.KeepAlive)

## Consequences

* We are incurring debt that will need to be paid later via deprecations or breaking changes to existing classes. The implementation for some Gradle types will be more complicated than an equivalent clean-sheet implementation.
* During code reviews that introduce new APIs, reviewers need to be mindful that all new properties are implemented with lazy types.

Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.

{* ../../docs_src/separate_openapi_schemas/tutorial001_py310.py ln[1:15] hl[14] *}

... dann ist das Feld `description` **nicht erforderlich**. Weil es den Defaultwert `None` hat.

### Eingabemodell in der Dokumentation { #input-model-in-docs }

Sie können überprüfen, dass das Feld `description` in der Dokumentation kein **rotes Sternchen** enthält, es ist nicht als erforderlich markiert:

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