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/// tip

Every time you install a **new package** in that environment, **activate** the environment again.

This makes sure that if you use a **terminal (<abbr title="command line interface">CLI</abbr>) program** installed by that package, you use the one from your virtual environment and not any other that could be installed globally, probably with a different version than what you need.

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## Check the Virtual Environment is Active

## Containers and Processes

A **container image** normally includes in its metadata the default program or command that should be run when the **container** is started and the parameters to be passed to that program. Very similar to what would be if it was in the command line.

When a **container** is started, it will run that command/program (although you can override it and make it run a different command/program).

This can be very useful for setting up **resources** that you need to use for the whole app, and that are **shared** among requests, and/or that you need to **clean up** afterwards. For example, a database connection pool, or loading a shared machine learning model.

## Use Case

Let's start with an example **use case** and then see how to solve it with this.

Let's imagine that you have some **machine learning models** that you want to use to handle requests. 🤖

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It will:

* Return that status code in the response.
* Document it as such in the OpenAPI schema (and so, in the user interfaces):

<img src="/img/tutorial/response-status-code/image01.png">

/// note

Some response codes (see the next section) indicate that the response does not have a body.

FastAPI knows this, and will produce OpenAPI docs that state there is no response body.

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    // Verify the peer received what was expected.
    assertThat(peer.takeFrame().type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_HEADERS)
    assertThat(peer.takeFrame().type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_RST_STREAM)
  }

  /**
   * Confirm that the client times out if the server stalls after 3 bytes. After the timeout the
   * connection is still considered healthy while we await the degraded pong. When that doesn't

import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Signifies that a test should not be run under Android. This annotation is respected only by our
 * Google-internal Android suite generators. Note that those generators also suppress any test
 * annotated with LargeTest.
 *
 * <p>Why use a custom annotation instead of {@code android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.Suppress}?
 * I'm not completely sure that this is the right choice, but it has various advantages:
 *

* `Field(index=True)` tells SQLModel that it should create a **SQL index** for this column, that would allow faster lookups in the database when reading data filtered by this column.

    SQLModel will know that something declared as `str` will be a SQL column of type `TEXT` (or `VARCHAR`, depending on the database).

 *
 * h3. plugins should be able to have specific metadata for a plugin model and that be translated -
 * dependencies - resources - configuration - extension points of plugins
 *
 * For a particular application plugin there will be a declarative descriptor for that plugin type.
 *
 * - nexus - the plugin class - UI to contribute - what JS to hook into the UI - what resources to

OAuth2 was designed so that the backend or API could be independent of the server that authenticates the user.

But in this case, the same **FastAPI** application will handle the API and the authentication.

So, let's review it from that simplified point of view:

* The user types the `username` and `password` in the frontend, and hits `Enter`.

If there's no `gzip` in the header, it will not try to decompress the body.

That way, the same route class can handle gzip compressed or uncompressed requests.

{* ../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial001.py hl[8:15] *}

### Create a custom `GzipRoute` class

Next, we create a custom subclass of `fastapi.routing.APIRoute` that will make use of the `GzipRequest`.