# Dependencies - `Depends()` and `Security()`

## `Depends()`

Dependencies are handled mainly with the special function `Depends()` that takes a callable.

Here is the reference for it and its parameters.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import Depends
```

::: fastapi.Depends

## `Security()`

The [strings] package adds several functions that work with iterators:
- [Lines] returns an iterator over
  the newline-terminated lines in the string s.
- [SplitSeq] returns an iterator over
  all substrings of s separated by sep.
- [SplitAfterSeq] returns an iterator
  over substrings of s split after each instance of sep.
- [FieldsSeq] returns an iterator over
  substrings of s split around runs of whitespace characters,
  as defined by unicode.IsSpace.

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package com.google.common.io;

import static java.lang.Math.max;
import static java.lang.Math.min;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FilterReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;

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 */

package com.google.common.io;

import static java.lang.Math.max;
import static java.lang.Math.min;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FilterReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;

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 * limitations under the License.
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package com.google.common.collect;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.ListTestSuiteBuilder;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.TestStringListGenerator;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.features.CollectionFeature;

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 */

package com.google.common.collect;

import static java.util.Arrays.asList;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.Multiset.Entry;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.features.CollectionFeature;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.features.CollectionSize;

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 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.common.collect;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.ListTestSuiteBuilder;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.TestStringListGenerator;
import com.google.common.collect.testing.features.CollectionFeature;

# `UploadFile` class

You can define *path operation function* parameters to be of the type `UploadFile` to receive files from the request.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import UploadFile
```

::: fastapi.UploadFile
    options:
        members:
            - file
            - filename
            - size
            - headers
            - content_type
            - read

So, if you run this example and go to <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/items/foo" class="external-link" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1:8000/items/foo</a>, you will see a response of:

```JSON
{"item_id":"foo"}
```

## Path parameters with types

You can declare the type of a path parameter in the function, using standard Python type annotations:

import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

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