```JSON
{
    "name": "Foo",
    "price": 50.2
}
```

!!! info
    In Pydantic v1 the method was called `.dict()`, it was deprecated (but still supported) in Pydantic v2, and renamed to `.model_dump()`.

* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system, using the CPU, and storing things on memory. This is also called a **process**.

### What is a Process

The word **process** is normally used in a more specific way, only referring to the thing that is running in the operating system (like in the last point above):

### Other utility functions

Any other utility function that you call directly can be created with normal `def` or `async def` and FastAPI won't affect the way you call it.

This is in contrast to the functions that FastAPI calls for you: *path operation functions* and dependencies.

### <a href="https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/" class="external-link" target="_blank">🍭</a>

1️⃣ 👑 ⚒ 💪 🛠️ ⚙️ 📊 "<abbr title="also called marshalling, conversion">🛠️</abbr>" ❔ ✊ 📊 ⚪️➡️ 📟 (🐍) &amp; 🏭 ⚫️ 🔘 🕳 👈 💪 📨 🔘 🕸. 🖼, 🏭 🎚 ⚗ 📊 ⚪️➡️ 💽 🔘 🎻 🎚. 🏭 `datetime` 🎚 🔘 🎻, ♒️.

The `oauth2_scheme` variable is an instance of `OAuth2PasswordBearer`, but it is also a "callable".

It could be called as:

```Python
oauth2_scheme(some, parameters)
```

So, it can be used with `Depends`.

### Use it

Now you can pass that `oauth2_scheme` in a dependency with `Depends`.

    return [{"item_id": "Foo"}]


def use_route_names_as_operation_ids(app: FastAPI) -> None:
    """
    Simplify operation IDs so that generated API clients have simpler function
    names.

    Should be called only after all routes have been added.
    """
    for route in app.routes:
        if isinstance(route, APIRoute):
            route.operation_id = route.name  # in this case, 'read_items'

## Other Asynchronous Function Calls

As the testing function is now asynchronous, you can now also call (and `await`) other `async` functions apart from sending requests to your FastAPI application in your tests, exactly as you would call them anywhere else in your code.

!!! tip

# 🔗 ⏮️ 🌾

FastAPI 🐕‍🦺 🔗 👈 <abbr title='sometimes also called "exit", "cleanup", "teardown", "close", "context managers", ...'>➕ 🔁 ⏮️ 🏁</abbr>.

👉, ⚙️ `yield` ↩️ `return`, &amp; ✍ ➕ 🔁 ⏮️.

!!! tip
    ⚒ 💭 ⚙️ `yield` 1️⃣ 👁 🕰.

!!! note "📡 ℹ"
    🙆 🔢 👈 ☑ ⚙️ ⏮️:

    * <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.contextmanager" class="external-link" target="_blank">`@contextlib.contextmanager`</a> ⚖️

Actually, all (or most) of the web frameworks work in this same way.

You never call those functions directly. They are called by your framework (in this case, **FastAPI**).

            Doc(
                """
                The function to call after the response is sent.

                It can be a regular `def` function or an `async def` function.
                """
            ),
        ],
        *args: P.args,
        **kwargs: P.kwargs,
    ) -> None:
        """
        Add a function to be called in the background after the response is sent.

        Read more about it in the