# Development - Contributing

First, you might want to see the basic ways to [help FastAPI and get help](help-fastapi.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Developing

If you already cloned the <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi" class="external-link" target="_blank">fastapi repository</a> and you want to deep dive in the code, here are some guidelines to set up your environment.

### Virtual environment

            // We've exhausted our current label. Either there are more labels to compare, in which
            // case we expect a dot as the next character. Otherwise, we've checked all our labels.
            if (currentLabelIndex == labels.size - 1) {
              break
            } else {
              currentLabelIndex++
              currentLabelByteIndex = -1

        ServerMessageBlock msg = (ServerMessageBlock) m;

        if ( ( msg.getFlags2() & SmbConstants.FLAGS2_SECURITY_SIGNATURES ) == 0 ) {
            // signature requirements need to be checked somewhere else
            log.warn("Expected signed response, but is not signed");
            return false;
        }

        update(this.macSigningKey, 0, this.macSigningKey.length);
        int index = offset;

	r, err := os.Open(f)
	if err != nil {
		return local.ReaderSource{}, err
	}
	runtime.SetFinalizer(r, func(x *os.File) {
		err = x.Close()
		if err != nil {
			log.Infof("file : %s is not closed: %v", f, err)
		}
	})
	return local.ReaderSource{Name: f, Reader: r}, nil
}

func gatherFilesInDirectory(cmd *cobra.Command, dir string) ([]local.ReaderSource, error) {
	var readers []local.ReaderSource

// the last sent value is received. After the last value has been received
// from a closed channel c, any receive from c will succeed without
// blocking, returning the zero value for the channel element. The form
//
//	x, ok := <-c
//
// will also set ok to false for a closed and empty channel.
func close(c chan<- Type)

// The panic built-in function stops normal execution of the current

import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
import org.junit.Ignore;

/**
 * Base class for map testers.
 *
 * <p>TODO: see how much of this is actually needed once Map testers are written. (It was cloned
 * from AbstractCollectionTester.)
 *
 * @param <K> the key type of the map to be tested.
 * @param <V> the value type of the map to be tested.
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@GwtCompatible

	}

	// close everything before we delete.
	if err = gw.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err = r.Close(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Attempt to remove after all fd's are closed.
	return os.Remove(oldLgFile)
}

func (w *Writer) rotate() error {
	if w.f != nil {
		if err := w.closeCurrentFile(); err != nil {
			return err
		}

      Class<? extends Exception> exceptionClass) {
    try {
      Exception unused = newWithCause(exceptionClass, new Exception());
      return true;
    } catch (Throwable t) { // sneaky checked exception
      return false;
    }
  }

  private static <X extends Exception> X newWithCause(Class<X> exceptionClass, Throwable cause) {

	e.encoder = func() reedsolomon.Encoder {
		once.Do(func() {
			e, err := reedsolomon.New(dataBlocks, parityBlocks, reedsolomon.WithAutoGoroutines(int(e.ShardSize())))
			if err != nil {
				// Error conditions should be checked above.
				panic(err)
			}
			enc = e
		})
		return enc
	}
	return
}

// EncodeData encodes the given data and returns the erasure-coded data.
// It returns an error if the erasure coding failed.

    /*
     * Inputs are <every possible 10-character string of characters "a./">
     *
     * Expected outputs are generated by the code itself, but they've been
     * checked against the inputs under Bash in order to confirm that the two
     * forms are equivalent (though not necessarily minimal, though we hope this
     * to be the case). Thus, this test is more of a regression test.
     *