## Use Case

Let's start with an example **use case** and then see how to solve it with this.

Let's imagine that you have some **machine learning models** that you want to use to handle requests. 🤖

Next it will convert and validate the data. So, when you use that `settings` object, you will have data of the types you declared (e.g. `items_per_user` will be an `int`).

### Use the `settings`

Then you can use the new `settings` object in your application:

```Python hl_lines="18-20"
{!../../../docs_src/settings/tutorial001.py!}
```

### Run the server

This is in contrast to the **development** stages, where you are constantly changing the code, breaking it and fixing it, stopping and restarting the development server, etc.

## Deployment Strategies

There are several ways to do it depending on your specific use case and the tools that you use.

# Templates

You can use any template engine you want with **FastAPI**.

A common choice is Jinja2, the same one used by Flask and other tools.

There are utilities to configure it easily that you can use directly in your **FastAPI** application (provided by Starlette).

## Install dependencies

Install `jinja2`:

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```console
$ pip install jinja2

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```

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    SwaggerUIBundle.SwaggerUIStandalonePreset
]
```

These are **JavaScript** objects, not strings, so you can't pass them from Python code directly.

# Including WSGI - Flask, Django, others

You can mount WSGI applications as you saw with [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, [Behind a Proxy](behind-a-proxy.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

For that, you can use the `WSGIMiddleware` and use it to wrap your WSGI application, for example, Flask, Django, etc.

## Using `WSGIMiddleware`

You need to import `WSGIMiddleware`.

This may help you better understand and contribute to Gradle.

### Debugging Gradle

You can debug Gradle by adding `-Dorg.gradle.debug=true` to the command-line. Gradle will wait for you to attach a debugger at `localhost:5005` by default.

If you made changes to build logic in the `build-logic` included build, you can run its tests by executing `./gradlew :build-logic:check`.

But you still want to be able to filter and convert the data you return with a `response_model`.

For those cases, you can use a `Response` parameter.

## Use a `Response` parameter

You can declare a parameter of type `Response` in your *path operation function* (as you can do for cookies and headers).

And then you can set the `status_code` in that *temporal* response object.

```Python hl_lines="1  9  12"

**FastAPI** doesn't require you to use a SQL (relational) database.

But you can use any relational database that you want.

Here we'll see an example using <a href="https://www.sqlalchemy.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SQLAlchemy</a>.

You can easily adapt it to any database supported by SQLAlchemy, like:

* PostgreSQL
* MySQL
* SQLite

## Do not Separate Schemas

Now, there are some cases where you might want to have the **same schema for input and output**.