It doesn't matter. **FastAPI** will know what to do.

/// note

If you don't know, check the [Async: *"In a hurry?"*](../../async.md#in-a-hurry){.internal-link target=_blank} section about `async` and `await` in the docs.

///

## Integrated with OpenAPI

## Pydantic

All the data validation is performed under the hood by <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Pydantic</a>, so you get all the benefits from it. And you know you are in good hands.

You can use the same type declarations with `str`, `float`, `bool` and many other complex data types.

Several of these are explored in the next chapters of the tutorial.

## Order matters

**FastAPI** is all based on these type hints, they give it many advantages and benefits.

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

/// note

If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

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## Motivation

Let's start with a simple example:

{* ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial001.py *}

Calling this program outputs:

```

You have *path operations* for:

* `/items/`
* `/items/{item_id}`

It's all the same structure as with `app/routers/users.py`.

But we want to be smarter and simplify the code a bit.

We know all the *path operations* in this module have the same:

* Path `prefix`: `/items`.
* `tags`: (just one tag: `items`).
* Extra `responses`.
* `dependencies`: they all need that `X-Token` dependency we created.

 * Modern reflection based SocketAdapter for Conscrypt class SSLSockets.
 *
 * This is used directly for providers where class name is known e.g. the Google Play Provider
 * but we can't compile directly against it, or in fact reliably know if it is registered and
 * on classpath.
 */
open class AndroidSocketAdapter(private val sslSocketClass: Class<in SSLSocket>) : SocketAdapter {
  private val setUseSessionTickets: Method =

Also, before that, in previous versions, the `request` object was passed as part of the key-value pairs in the context for Jinja2.

///

/// tip

By declaring `response_class=HTMLResponse` the docs UI will be able to know that the response will be HTML.

///

/// note | "Technical Details"

You could also use `from starlette.templating import Jinja2Templates`.

    // come close.
    USING_DECODER_WITH_SIZE_HINT {
      @Override
      String read(ByteSource byteSource, Charset cs) throws IOException {
        Optional<Long> size = byteSource.sizeIfKnown();
        // if we know the size and it fits in an int
        if (size.isPresent() && size.get().longValue() == size.get().intValue()) {
          // otherwise try to presize a StringBuilder

Calls are executed in one of two ways:

 * **Synchronous:** your thread blocks until the response is readable.

## Pin your `fastapi` version

The first thing you should do is to "pin" the version of **FastAPI** you are using to the specific latest version that you know works correctly for your application.

For example, let's say you are using version `0.112.0` in your app.

If you use a `requirements.txt` file you could specify the version with:

```txt
fastapi[standard]==0.112.0

import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Protocol;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;

/**
 * This prints events for a single in-flight call. It won't work for multiple concurrent calls
 * because we don't know what callStartNanos refers to.
 */
public final class PrintEventsNonConcurrent {
  private final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
      .eventListener(new PrintingEventListener())
      .build();