# Get Current User

In the previous chapter the security system (which is based on the dependency injection system) was giving the *path operation function* a `token` as a `str`:

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="12"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/security/tutorial001_an_py39.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.8+"

    ```Python hl_lines="11"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/security/tutorial001_an.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.8+ non-Annotated"

To see all the options you have, checkout the docs for <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/types/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Pydantic's exotic types</a>. You will see some examples in the next chapter.

For example, as in the `Image` model we have a `url` field, we can declare it to be an instance of Pydantic's `HttpUrl` instead of a `str`:

=== "Python 3.10+"

    ```Python hl_lines="2  8"

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                            CHAPTER I

                      Down the Rabbit-Hole


  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had

And that function takes parameters in the same way that *path operation functions* do.

!!! tip
    You'll see what other "things", apart from functions, can be used as dependencies in the next chapter.

Whenever a new request arrives, **FastAPI** will take care of:

* Calling your dependency ("dependable") function with the correct parameters.
* Get the result from your function.

   * on {@link Platform} so that we can have different behavior in GWT.
   *
   * <p>This implementation tries to be smart in a number of ways. It recognizes cases where the
   * negation is cheaper to precompute than the matcher itself; it tries to build small hash tables
   * for matchers that only match a few characters, and so on. In the worst-case scenario, it

This code is something you can actually use in your application, save the password hashes in your database, etc.

We are going to start from where we left in the previous chapter and increment it.

## About JWT

JWT means "JSON Web Tokens".

It's a standard to codify a JSON object in a long dense string without spaces. It looks like this:

```

   * on {@link Platform} so that we can have different behavior in GWT.
   *
   * <p>This implementation tries to be smart in a number of ways. It recognizes cases where the
   * negation is cheaper to precompute than the matcher itself; it tries to build small hash tables
   * for matchers that only match a few characters, and so on. In the worst-case scenario, it

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

!!! note
    If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

## Motivation

Let's start with a simple example:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial001.py!}
```

Calling this program outputs:

```
John Doe
```

## Official Docker Image with Gunicorn - Uvicorn

There is an official Docker image that includes Gunicorn running with Uvicorn workers, as detailed in a previous chapter: [Server Workers - Gunicorn with Uvicorn](server-workers.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

			return
		}
		maxParts--

		name := part.FormName()
		if name == "" {
			continue
		}

		fileName = part.FileName()

		// Multiple values for the same key (one map entry, longer slice) are cheaper
		// than the same number of values for different keys (many map entries), but
		// using a consistent per-value cost for overhead is simpler.
		maxMemoryBytes := 2 * int64(10<<20)
		maxMemoryBytes -= int64(len(name))