* Any program, any code, **can only do things** when it is being **executed**. So, when there's a **process running**.
* The process can be **terminated** (or "killed") by you, or by the operating system. At that point, it stops running/being executed, and it can **no longer do things**.

# Test Client - `TestClient`

You can use the `TestClient` class to test FastAPI applications without creating an actual HTTP and socket connection, just communicating directly with the FastAPI code.

Read more about it in the [FastAPI docs for Testing](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/testing/).

You can import it directly from `fastapi.testclient`:

```python
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
```

# 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

Make sure you create a [virtual environment](../virtual-environments.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, activate it, and install `jinja2`:

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# Background Tasks - `BackgroundTasks`

You can declare a parameter in a *path operation function* or dependency function with the type `BackgroundTasks`, and then you can use it to schedule the execution of background tasks after the response is sent.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import BackgroundTasks
```

    "SignerType": 1
  }
}
```

> NOTE: You can use the `-cscopes` parameter to restrict the requested scopes, for example to `"openid,policy_role_attribute"`, being `policy_role_attribute` a client_scope / client_mapper that maps a role attribute called policy to a `policy` claim returned by Keycloak.

These credentials can now be used to perform MinIO API operations.

### Using MinIO Console

* `description`: The description of your API, this can include markdown and will be shown in the docs.
* `routes`: A list of routes, these are each of the registered *path operations*. They are taken from `app.routes`.

/// info

The parameter `summary` is available in OpenAPI 3.1.0 and above, supported by FastAPI 0.99.0 and above.

///

## Overriding the defaults

	// value of true indicates that the list was truncated. The list can be truncated
	// if the number of objects exceeds the limit allowed or specified
	// by max keys.
	IsTruncated bool

	// When response is truncated (the IsTruncated element value in the response is true),
	// you can use the key name in this field as marker in the subsequent
	// request to get next set of objects.
	//

Here's the reference information for the request parameters.

These are the special functions that you can put in *path operation function* parameters or dependency functions with `Annotated` to get data from the request.

It includes:

* `Query()`
* `Path()`
* `Body()`
* `Cookie()`
* `Header()`
* `Form()`
* `File()`

You can import them all directly from `fastapi`:

```python

import okhttp3.internal.commonParse
import okhttp3.internal.commonToString

/**
 * A Cache-Control header with cache directives from a server or client. These directives set policy
 * on what responses can be stored, and which requests can be satisfied by those stored responses.
 *
 * See [RFC 7234, 5.2](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-5.2).
 */
class CacheControl internal constructor(
  /**

// Copyright (c) 2015-2024 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful