High-Performance Web Apps with FastAPI: The Asynchronous Web Framework Based on Modern Python

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M. LathkarHigh-Performance Web Apps with FastAPIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9178-8_9

9. Security and Testing

Malhar Lathkar¹  

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Nanded, Maharashtra, India

 

Since an API exposes the endpoints of the server’s resources to be consumed by other third-party apps, ensuring that access is only granted to authorized users becomes the topmost priority for developers. Similarly, it is also important that the code is subjected to proper testing before releasing it to the users.

In this chapter, we are going to address these important topics:

• Exception handling

• Security

• Testing

• AsyncClient

Exception Handling

The fact that, in any software, a proper exception handling ...