I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I
don't care which happens!'

  She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which
way?  Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to
feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to
find that she remained the same size:  to be sure, this generally

But at some point, there was no other option than creating something that provided all these features, taking the best ideas from previous tools, and combining them in the best way possible, using language features that weren't even available before (Python 3.6+ type hints).

## Previous tools { #previous-tools }

```

It is not encrypted, so, anyone could recover the information from the contents.

But it's signed. So, when you receive a token that you emitted, you can verify that you actually emitted it.

That way, you can create a token with an expiration of, let's say, 1 week. And then when the user comes back the next day with the token, you know that user is still logged in to your system.

        "tax": 3.2
    },
    "user": {
        "username": "dave",
        "full_name": "Dave Grohl"
    }
}
```

/// note

Notice that even though the `item` was declared the same way as before, it is now expected to be inside of the body with a key `item`.

///

**FastAPI** will do the automatic conversion from the request, so that the parameter `item` receives its specific content and the same for `user`.

For active-active replication, automatic failover occurs on `GET/HEAD` operations if object or object version requested qualifies for replication and is missing on one site, but present on the other. This allows the applications to take full advantage of two-way replication even before the two sites get fully synced.

```

The parameter values in your function will be:

* `skip=20`: because you set it in the URL
* `limit=10`: because that was the default value

## Optional parameters { #optional-parameters }

The same way, you can declare optional query parameters, by setting their default to `None`:

{* ../../docs_src/query_params/tutorial002_py310.py hl[7] *}

    /**
     * Retrieve all addresses of a host by it's address. NetBIOS hosts can
     * have many names for a given IP address. The name and IP address make the
     * NetBIOS address. This provides a way to retrieve the other names for a
     * host with the same IP address.
     *
     * @param addr
     *            the address to query
     * @return resolved addresses
     * @throws UnknownHostException

   * <p>If {@code node} is removed from the graph after this method is called, the {@code Set}
   * {@code view} returned by this method will be invalidated, and will throw {@code
   * IllegalStateException} if it is accessed in any way, with the following exceptions:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code view.equals(view)} evaluates to {@code true} (but any other {@code equals(...)}
   *       expression involving {@code view} will throw)

Import `File` and `UploadFile` from `fastapi`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_files/tutorial001_an_py39.py hl[3] *}

## Define `File` Parameters { #define-file-parameters }

Create file parameters the same way you would for `Body` or `Form`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_files/tutorial001_an_py39.py hl[9] *}

/// info

`File` is a class that inherits directly from `Form`.

# Global Dependencies { #global-dependencies }

For some types of applications you might want to add dependencies to the whole application.

Similar to the way you can [add `dependencies` to the *path operation decorators*](dependencies-in-path-operation-decorators.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, you can add them to the `FastAPI` application.

In that case, they will be applied to all the *path operations* in the application: