For example, if you want to read or manipulate the request body before it is processed by your application.

/// danger

This is an "advanced" feature.

If you are just starting with **FastAPI** you might want to skip this section.

///

## Use cases { #use-cases }

Some use cases include:

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * An executor service which forwards all its method calls to another executor service. Subclasses
 * should override one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing executor service as
 * desired per the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>{@code default} method warning:</b> This class does <i>not</i> forward calls to {@code

## 🏃 🐁 ⏮️ Uvicorn 👨‍🏭

⤴️ 👆 💪 🏃 🐁 ⏮️:

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```console
$ gunicorn main:app --workers 4 --worker-class uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker --bind 0.0.0.0:80

[19499] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0
[19499] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:80 (19499)
[19499] [INFO] Using worker: uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker
[19511] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 19511
[19513] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 19513

  // of dependencies.

  // Represents how tightly we can pack things, as a maximum.
  private static final double DESIRED_LOAD_FACTOR = 0.5;

  /**
   * Returns an array size suitable for the backing array of a hash table that uses open addressing
   * with linear probing in its implementation. The returned size is the smallest power of two that
   * can hold setSize elements with the desired load factor.
   */

import java.util.Objects;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A map entry which forwards all its method calls to another map entry. Subclasses should override
 * one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing map entry as desired per the <a
 * href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingMapEntry} forward <i>indiscriminately</i> to

    }

    int type, length;

    /**
     * Writes the packet to the specified byte array in wire format.
     *
     * @param dst the destination byte array to write to
     * @param dstIndex the starting index in the destination array
     * @return the number of bytes written
     */
    public int writeWireFormat(final byte[] dst, final int dstIndex) {
        length = writeTrailerWireFormat(dst, dstIndex + HEADER_LENGTH);

import java.util.Objects;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A map entry which forwards all its method calls to another map entry. Subclasses should override
 * one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing map entry as desired per the <a
 * href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingMapEntry} forward <i>indiscriminately</i> to

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link BlockingDeque} which forwards all its method calls to another {@code BlockingDeque}.
 * Subclasses should override one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing deque as
 * desired per the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern">decorator pattern</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingBlockingDeque} forward <b>indiscriminately</b>

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```console
$ <font color="#4E9A06">fastapi</font> dev <u style="text-decoration-style:solid">main.py</u>

  <span style="background-color:#009485"><font color="#D3D7CF"> FastAPI </font></span>  Starting development server 🚀

             Searching for package file structure from directories
             with <font color="#3465A4">__init__.py</font> files

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```console
$ <font color="#4E9A06">fastapi</font> dev <u style="text-decoration-style:solid">main.py</u>

  <span style="background-color:#009485"><font color="#D3D7CF"> FastAPI </font></span>  Starting development server 🚀

             Searching for package file structure from directories with
             <font color="#3465A4">__init__.py</font> files