This will be especially useful when you use it in a **large code base** where you use **the same dependencies** over and over again in **many *path operations***.

## To `async` or not to `async` { #to-async-or-not-to-async }

As dependencies will also be called by **FastAPI** (the same as your *path operation functions*), the same rules apply while defining your functions.

    assertEquals(
        "multiset.count(wrongType) didn't return 0", 0, getMultiset().count(WrongType.VALUE));
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@link Method} instances for the read tests that assume multisets support duplicates so
   * that the test of {@code Multisets.forSet()} can suppress them.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // reflection

///

And we are using this model to declare our input and the same model to declare our output:

{* ../../docs_src/response_model/tutorial002_py310.py hl[16] *}

Now, whenever a browser is creating a user with a password, the API will return the same password in the response.

In this case, it might not be a problem, because it's the same user sending the password.

And of course, it supports the same:

* data validation
* data serialization
* data documentation, etc.

This works the same way as with Pydantic models. And it is actually achieved in the same way underneath, using Pydantic.

/// info

Keep in mind that dataclasses can't do everything Pydantic models can do.

  /** Test an empty collection. */
  ZERO(0),
  /** Test a one-element collection. */
  ONE(1),
  /** Test a three-element collection. */
  SEVERAL(3),
  /*
   * TODO: add VERY_LARGE, noting that we currently assume that the fourth
   * sample element is not in any collection
   */

  ANY(ZERO, ONE, SEVERAL);

  private final Set<Feature<? super Collection>> implied;
  private final @Nullable Integer numElements;

  /** Test an empty collection. */
  ZERO(0),
  /** Test a one-element collection. */
  ONE(1),
  /** Test a three-element collection. */
  SEVERAL(3),
  /*
   * TODO: add VERY_LARGE, noting that we currently assume that the fourth
   * sample element is not in any collection
   */

  ANY(ZERO, ONE, SEVERAL);

  private final Set<Feature<? super Collection>> implied;
  private final @Nullable Integer numElements;

If you pass a "callable" as a dependency in **FastAPI**, it will analyze the parameters for that "callable", and process them in the same way as the parameters for a *path operation function*. Including sub-dependencies.

That also applies to callables with no parameters at all. The same as it would be for *path operation functions* with no parameters.

If the passwords don't match, we return the same error.

#### Password hashing { #password-hashing }

"Hashing" means: converting some content (a password in this case) into a sequence of bytes (just a string) that looks like gibberish.

Whenever you pass exactly the same content (exactly the same password) you get exactly the same gibberish.

But you cannot convert from the gibberish back to the password.

  public void testElementSetClear() {
    getMultiset().elementSet().clear();
    assertEmpty(getMultiset());
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@link Method} instances for the read tests that assume multisets support duplicates so
   * that the test of {@code Multisets.forSet()} can suppress them.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // reflection

   a) Accompany the combined library with a copy of the same work based
   on the Library, uncombined with any other library facilities,
   conveyed under the terms of this License.

   b) Give prominent notice with the combined library that part of it
   is a work based on the Library, and explaining where to find the
   accompanying uncombined form of the same work.