I have been creating APIs with complex requirements for several years (Machine Learning, distributed systems, asynchronous jobs, NoSQL databases, etc), leading several teams of developers.

As part of that, I needed to investigate, test and use many alternatives.

The history of **FastAPI** is in great part the history of its predecessors.

As said in the section [Alternatives](alternatives.md):

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 *
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   |   plugins should document which type you must use.
   |
   | * provides: A list of key/value-pairs.
   |   Based on the toolchain-configuration in the pom.xml Maven will search for
   |   matching <provides/> configuration. You can decide for yourself which key-value
   |   pairs to use. Often used keys are 'version', 'vendor' and 'arch'. By default

/// info

The parameter `summary` is available in OpenAPI 3.1.0 and above, supported by FastAPI 0.99.0 and above.

///

## Overriding the defaults { #overriding-the-defaults }

Using the information above, you can use the same utility function to generate the OpenAPI schema and override each part that you need.

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007 The Guava Authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

 a  copy  of this  software  and  associated  documentation files  (the
 "Software"), to  deal in  the Software without  restriction, including
 without limitation  the rights to  use, copy, modify,  merge, publish,
 distribute,  sublicense, and/or sell  copies of  the Software,  and to
 permit persons to whom the Software  is furnished to do so, subject to
 the following conditions:

 */
@GwtCompatible
/*
 * The type parameter is <T> rather than <T extends @Nullable> so that we can use T in the
 * doEquivalent and doHash methods to indicate that the parameter cannot be null.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("UngroupedOverloads")
public abstract class Equivalence<T> implements BiPredicate<@Nullable T, @Nullable T> {
  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
  protected Equivalence() {}

  /**

        // Test List interface (should use get(0) for performance)
        List<BsUser> list = Arrays.asList(entity1, entity2);
        RenderDataUtil.register(data, "list", list);

        Object result = data.getDataMap().get("list");
        assertNotNull(result);
        assertTrue(result instanceof List);

        // Test Set interface (should use iterator().next())
        Set<BsUser> set = new HashSet<>();

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 * Copyright (c) 2022 Square, Inc.
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 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,