## `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()`

For many scenarios, you can handle security (authorization, authentication, etc.) with dependencies, using `Depends()`.

from typing import List

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
from typing_extensions import Annotated

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_files(
    files: Annotated[List[bytes], File(description="Multiple files as bytes")],
):
    return {"file_sizes": [len(file) for file in files]}


@app.post("/uploadfiles/")
async def create_upload_files(

from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

from .config import Settings
from .main import app, get_settings

client = TestClient(app)


def get_settings_override():
    return Settings(admin_email="******@****.***")


app.dependency_overrides[get_settings] = get_settings_override


def test_app():
    response = client.get("/info")
    data = response.json()
    assert data == {
        "app_name": "Awesome API",

from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

from .config import Settings
from .main import app, get_settings

client = TestClient(app)


def get_settings_override():
    return Settings(admin_email="******@****.***")


app.dependency_overrides[get_settings] = get_settings_override


def test_app():
    response = client.get("/info")
    data = response.json()
    assert data == {
        "app_name": "Awesome API",

 * callable block} that may capture objects for later closing. To start a pipeline from a {@link
 * ListenableFuture} that doesn't create resources that should be closed later, you can use {@link
 * #from(ListenableFuture)} instead.
 *
 * <h3>Derived steps</h3>
 *
 * A {@code ClosingFuture} step can be derived from one or more input {@code ClosingFuture} steps in

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI

from .dependencies import get_query_token, get_token_header
from .internal import admin
from .routers import items, users

app = FastAPI(dependencies=[Depends(get_query_token)])


app.include_router(users.router)
app.include_router(items.router)
app.include_router(
    admin.router,
    prefix="/admin",
    tags=["admin"],
    dependencies=[Depends(get_token_header)],

from typing import List

from fastapi import FastAPI, Query
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from typing_extensions import Annotated, Literal

app = FastAPI()


class FilterParams(BaseModel):
    limit: int = Field(100, gt=0, le=100)
    offset: int = Field(0, ge=0)
    order_by: Literal["created_at", "updated_at"] = "created_at"
    tags: List[str] = []


@app.get("/items/")

///

### 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.

from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from fastapi.exception_handlers import (
    http_exception_handler,
    request_validation_exception_handler,
)
from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
from starlette.exceptions import HTTPException as StarletteHTTPException

app = FastAPI()


@app.exception_handler(StarletteHTTPException)
async def custom_http_exception_handler(request, exc):
    print(f"OMG! An HTTP error!: {repr(exc)}")

from typing import Union

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()


class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    description: Union[str, None] = None
    price: float
    tax: Union[float, None] = None
    tags: set[str] = set()


@app.put("/items/{item_id}")
async def update_item(item_id: int, item: Item):
    results = {"item_id": item_id, "item": item}