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But at some point, there was no other option than creating something that provided all these features, taking the best ideas from previous tools, and combining them in the best way possible, using language features that weren't even available before (Python 3.6+ type hints).

## Previous tools

### <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Django</a>

/// warning

The recommended way to handle the *startup* and *shutdown* is using the `lifespan` parameter of the `FastAPI` app as described above. If you provide a `lifespan` parameter, `startup` and `shutdown` event handlers will no longer be called. It's all `lifespan` or all events, not both.

You can probably skip this part.

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import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.meta.TypeQualifierDefault;

/**
 * Marks all "top-level" types as non-null in a way that is recognized by Kotlin. Note that this
 * unfortunately includes type-variable usages, so we also provide {@link ParametricNullness} to
 * "undo" it as best we can.
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target(TYPE)

# Response Status Code

The same way you can specify a response model, you can also declare the HTTP status code used for the response with the parameter `status_code` in any of the *path operations*:

* `@app.get()`
* `@app.post()`
* `@app.put()`
* `@app.delete()`
* etc.

{* ../../docs_src/response_status_code/tutorial001.py hl[6] *}

/// note

For active-active replication, automatic failover occurs on `GET/HEAD` operations if object or object version requested qualifies for replication and is missing on one site, but present on the other. This allows the applications to take full advantage of two-way replication even before the two sites get fully synced.

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