# Tutorial - User Guide { #tutorial-user-guide }

This tutorial shows you how to use **FastAPI** with most of its features, step by step.

Each section gradually builds on the previous ones, but it's structured to separate topics, so that you can go directly to any specific one to solve your specific API needs.

It is also built to work as a future reference so you can come back and see exactly what you need.

## Run the code { #run-the-code }

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    assertThat(urlFormParameterEscaper()).isSameInstanceAs(e);
    assertBasicUrlEscaper(e);

    /*
     * Specified as safe by RFC 2396 but not by java.net.URLEncoder. These tests will start failing
     * when the escaper is made compliant with RFC 2396, but that's a good thing (just change them
     * to assertUnescaped).
     */
    assertEscaping(e, "%21", '!');
    assertEscaping(e, "%28", '(');

              <!-- FeatureUtilTest.*ExampleDerivedInterfaceTester, com.google.common.io.*Tester, incidentally FeatureSpecificTestSuiteBuilderTest.MyAbstractTester (but we don't care either way because it's not meant to run on its own but works OK if it does)... but not NullPointerTesterTest, etc. -->
              <exclude>%regex[.*Tester.class]</exclude>
              <!-- Anonymous TestCase subclasses in GeneratedMonitorTest -->

   *
   * <p>Note that it is ordinarily not possible for {@link #split(CharSequence)} to return an empty
   * iterable, but when using this option, it can (if the input sequence consists of nothing but
   * separators).
   *
   * @return a splitter with the desired configuration
   */
  public Splitter omitEmptyStrings() {

     * is referenced somewhere for as long as the enum class is loaded. *Maybe in theory* the enum
     * class could be unloaded after the above call to `getEnumConstants` but before we call
     * `get()`, but that is vanishingly unlikely.
     */
    return ref == null ? Optional.absent() : Optional.fromNullable(enumClass.cast(ref.get()));
  }

  static String formatCompact4Digits(double value) {

			if testCase.expectedErr {
				t.Log(err)
			}
			if err != nil && !testCase.expectedErr {
				t.Errorf("Expected success, but found %s", err)
			}
			if err == nil && testCase.expectedErr {
				t.Error("Expected error, but got `nil`")
			}
			if update != testCase.expectedUpdate {
				t.Errorf("Expected %t, got %t", testCase.expectedUpdate, update)
			}
		})
	}

// Available returns how many bytes are unused in the buffer.
func (b *Buffer) Available() int { return cap(b.buf) - len(b.buf) }

// Truncate discards all but the first n unread bytes from the buffer
// but continues to use the same allocated storage.
// It panics if n is negative or greater than the length of the buffer.
func (b *Buffer) Truncate(n int) {
	if n == 0 {
		b.Reset()
		return
	}

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 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
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// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
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