Creating and using a function dependency
In FastAPI, a dependency can be defined either as a function or as a callable class. In this section, we’ll focus on the functions, which are the ones you’ll probably work with most of the time.
As we said, a dependency is a way to wrap some logic that will retrieve some sub-values or sub-objects, make something with them, and finally, return a value that will be injected into the endpoint calling it.
Let’s look at the first example where we define a function dependency to retrieve pagination query parameters, skip and limit:
chapter05_function_dependency_01.py
async def pagination(skip: int = 0, limit: int = 10) -> tuple[int, int]: return (skip, limit)
@app.get("/items")
async def list_items(p: tuple[int, int] = Depends(pagination)):
skip, limit = p
return {"skip": skip, "limit": limit}
