app = FastAPI()

# =====================================================================================
# Without aliases


@app.post("/optional-list-bytes")
async def read_optional_list_bytes(p: Annotated[Optional[list[bytes]], File()] = None):
    return {"file_size": [len(file) for file in p] if p else None}


@app.post("/optional-list-uploadfile")
async def read_optional_list_uploadfile(

app = FastAPI()

# =====================================================================================
# Without aliases


@app.post("/optional-bytes", operation_id="optional_bytes")
async def read_optional_bytes(p: Annotated[Optional[bytes], File()] = None):
    return {"file_size": len(p) if p else None}


@app.post("/optional-uploadfile", operation_id="optional_uploadfile")

app = FastAPI()

# =====================================================================================
# Without aliases


@app.post("/list-bytes", operation_id="list_bytes")
async def read_list_bytes(p: Annotated[list[bytes], File()]):
    return {"file_size": [len(file) for file in p]}


@app.post("/list-uploadfile", operation_id="list_uploadfile")

    )


def is_bytes_or_nonable_bytes_annotation(annotation: Any) -> bool:
    if lenient_issubclass(annotation, bytes):
        return True
    origin = get_origin(annotation)
    if origin is Union or origin is UnionType:
        for arg in get_args(annotation):
            if lenient_issubclass(arg, bytes):
                return True
    return False

    with TestClient(app) as client:
        yield client


def _bench_get(benchmark, client: TestClient, path: str) -> tuple[int, bytes]:
    warmup = client.get(path)
    assert warmup.status_code == 200

    def do_request() -> tuple[int, bytes]:
        response = client.get(path)
        return response.status_code, response.content

    return benchmark(do_request)

    # For coverage
    # TODO: in theory this would allow declaring types that could be lists of bytes
    # to be read from files and other types, but I'm not even sure it's a good idea
    # to support it as a first class "feature"
    assert is_bytes_sequence_annotation(Union[list[str], list[bytes]])


def test_is_uploadfile_sequence_annotation():
    # For coverage

            and isinstance(field_info, params.File)
            and value_is_sequence(value)
        ):
            # For types
            assert isinstance(value, sequence_types)
            results: list[Union[bytes, str]] = []

            async def process_fn(
                fn: Callable[[], Coroutine[Any, Any, Any]],
            ) -> None:
                result = await fn()

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