Remember I told you before that `Annotated` can be used to add metadata to your parameters in the [Python Types Intro](../python-types.md#type-hints-with-metadata-annotations){.internal-link target=_blank}?

Now it's the time to use it with FastAPI. 🚀

We had this type annotation:

//// tab | Python 3.10+

```Python
q: str | None = None
```

////

//// tab | Python 3.8+

```Python
q: Union[str, None] = None

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"_I’m over the moon excited about **FastAPI**. It’s so fun!_"

<div style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;">Brian Okken - <strong><a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/123/time-to-right-the-py-wrongs?time_in_sec=855" target="_blank">Python Bytes</a> podcast host</strong> <a href="https://x.com/brianokken/status/1112220079972728832" target="_blank"><small>(ref)</small></a></div>

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			*dest = append(*dest, mapValue)
		}
	case *int, *int8, *int16, *int32, *int64,
		*uint, *uint8, *uint16, *uint32, *uint64, *uintptr,
		*float32, *float64,
		*bool, *string, *time.Time,
		*sql.NullInt32, *sql.NullInt64, *sql.NullFloat64,
		*sql.NullBool, *sql.NullString, *sql.NullTime:
		for initialized || rows.Next() {
			initialized = false
			db.RowsAffected++
			db.AddError(rows.Scan(dest))

 * {@code Nullable}, {@code CheckForNull}, {@code NullableType}, or {@code NullableDecl}.
 *
 * <p>The tested methods and constructors are invoked -- each time with one parameter being null and
 * the rest not null -- and the test fails if no expected exception is thrown. {@code
 * NullPointerTester} uses best effort to pick non-null default values for many common JDK and Guava

// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package cmd

import (
	"testing"
	"time"
)

func TestTierMetrics(t *testing.T) {
	tier := "WARM-1"
	globalTierMetrics.Observe(tier, 200*time.Millisecond)
	expSuccess := 10
	expFailure := 5
	for range expSuccess {
		globalTierMetrics.logSuccess(tier)
	}
	for range expFailure {

pkg testing, method (*T) Context() context.Context #36532
pkg testing, type TB interface, Chdir(string) #62516
pkg testing, type TB interface, Context() context.Context #36532
pkg time, method (Time) AppendBinary([]uint8) ([]uint8, error) #62384
pkg time, method (Time) AppendText([]uint8) ([]uint8, error) #62384
pkg weak, func Make[$0 interface{}](*$0) Pointer[$0] #67552
pkg weak, method (Pointer[$0]) Value() *$0 #67552

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;

    public void test_purgeDocumentSuggest() {
        LocalDateTime time = LocalDateTime.now().minusDays(1);
        try {
            suggestHelper.purgeDocumentSuggest(time);
            assertTrue(true);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            assertTrue(true);
        }
    }

    public void test_purgeSearchlogSuggest() {
        LocalDateTime time = LocalDateTime.now().minusDays(1);
        try {

         *
         * @return channel identifier
         */
        public String getChannelId() {
            return channelId;
        }

        /**
         * Get failure time
         *
         * @return time of first failure
         */
        public long getFailureTime() {
            return failureTime;
        }

        /**
         * Get retry count
         *

     * Verifies that the method returns the correct time zone offset.
     * @throws CIFSException
     */
    @Test
    void testGetServerTimeZoneOffset() throws CIFSException {
        when(smbTreeHandle.getServerTimeZoneOffset()).thenReturn(0L);
        assertEquals(0L, smbTreeHandle.getServerTimeZoneOffset(), "Server time zone offset should be 0");