### What is "Mounting"

"Mounting" means adding a complete "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling all the sub-paths.

This is different from using an `APIRouter` as a mounted application is completely independent. The OpenAPI and docs from your main application won't include anything from the mounted application, etc.

# Testing

Thanks to <a href="https://www.starlette.io/testclient/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Starlette</a>, testing **FastAPI** applications is easy and enjoyable.

It is based on <a href="https://www.python-httpx.org" class="external-link" target="_blank">HTTPX</a>, which in turn is designed based on Requests, so it's very familiar and intuitive.

@needs_py310
def test_typing():
    types = {
        list[int]: [1, 2, 3],
        dict[str, list[int]]: {"a": [1, 2, 3], "b": [4, 5, 6]},
        set[int]: [1, 2, 3],  # `set` is converted to `list`
        tuple[int, ...]: [1, 2, 3],  # `tuple` is converted to `list`
    }
    for test_type, expect in types.items():
        app = FastAPI()

        @app.post("/", response_model=test_type)

# Middleware

You can add middleware to **FastAPI** applications.

A "middleware" is a function that works with every **request** before it is processed by any specific *path operation*. And also with every **response** before returning it.

* It takes each **request** that comes to your application.
* It can then do something to that **request** or run any needed code.

        }
    ) | IsDict(
        # TODO: remove when deprecating Pydantic v1
        {
            "detail": [
                {
                    "loc": ["body", "price"],
                    "msg": "value is not a valid float",
                    "type": "type_error.float",
                }
            ]
        }
    )


@needs_py310
def test_post_with_no_data(client: TestClient):

        }
    ) | IsDict(
        # TODO: remove when deprecating Pydantic v1
        {
            "detail": [
                {
                    "loc": ["body", "price"],
                    "msg": "value is not a valid float",
                    "type": "type_error.float",
                }
            ]
        }
    )


def test_post_with_no_data(client: TestClient):

        }
    ) | IsDict(
        # TODO: remove when deprecating Pydantic v1
        {
            "detail": [
                {
                    "loc": ["query", "query"],
                    "msg": "value is not a valid integer",
                    "type": "type_error.integer",
                }
            ]
        }
    )


def test_query_int_query_baz():

            allow_nan=allow_inf_nan,
            max_digits=max_digits,
            decimal_places=decimal_places,
            **extra,
        )
        if examples is not None:
            kwargs["examples"] = examples
        if regex is not None:
            warnings.warn(
                "`regex` has been deprecated, please use `pattern` instead",
                category=DeprecationWarning,

# 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"

        username: str = payload.get("sub")
        if username is None:
            raise credentials_exception
        token_data = TokenData(username=username)
    except JWTError:
        raise credentials_exception
    user = get_user(fake_users_db, username=token_data.username)
    if user is None:
        raise credentials_exception
    return user