# MinIO Grid

The MinIO Grid is a package that provides two-way communication between servers.
It uses a single two-way connection to send and receive messages between servers.

It includes built in muxing of concurrent requests as well as congestion handling for streams.

Requests can be "Single Payload" or "Streamed".

Use the MinIO Grid for:

* Small, frequent requests with low latency requirements.

This will **depend heavily** on the way you **deploy your system**, and it would probably be connected to the way you start programs, handling restarts, etc.

Here are some possible ideas:

* An "Init Container" in Kubernetes that runs before your app container
* A bash script that runs the previous steps and then starts your application
    * You would still need a way to start/restart *that* bash script, detect errors, etc.

### Existing properties in existing classes

This is out of scope for this ADR.  Migrating an existing property to lazy types is being handled in a different way.

### Conventions

{* ../../docs_src/path_operation_advanced_configuration/tutorial007_py39.py hl[24:31] *}

/// tip

Here we reuse the same Pydantic model.

But the same way, we could have validated it in some other way.

But I'll show you how to improve that next. 🤓

## Custom Operation IDs and Better Method Names { #custom-operation-ids-and-better-method-names }

You can **modify** the way these operation IDs are **generated** to make them simpler and have **simpler method names** in the clients.

# Learn { #learn }

Here are the introductory sections and the tutorials to learn **FastAPI**.

Or you might have any other way to communicate with the WebSocket endpoint.

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But for this example, we'll use a very simple HTML document with some JavaScript, all inside a long string.

This, of course, is not optimal and you wouldn't use it for production.

In production you would have one of the options above.

But it's the simplest way to focus on the server-side of WebSockets and have a working example:

# CMD ["fastapi", "run", "app/main.py", "--port", "80", "--proxy-headers"]
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</details>

## What is a Container { #what-is-a-container }

Containers (mainly Linux containers) are a very **lightweight** way to package applications including all their dependencies and necessary files while keeping them isolated from other containers (other applications or components) in the same system.

# Response Model - Return Type { #response-model-return-type }

You can declare the type used for the response by annotating the *path operation function* **return type**.

You can use **type annotations** the same way you would for input data in function **parameters**, you can use Pydantic models, lists, dictionaries, scalar values like integers, booleans, etc.

{* ../../docs_src/response_model/tutorial001_01_py310.py hl[16,21] *}

Import `Form` from `fastapi`:

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

## Define `Form` parameters { #define-form-parameters }

Create form parameters the same way you would for `Body` or `Query`:

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