# 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

 * <tr><td>{@code [a..b]}  <td>{@code {x | a <= x <= b}}<td>{@link Range#closed closed}
 * <tr><td>{@code (a..b]}  <td>{@code {x | a < x <= b}} <td>{@link Range#openClosed openClosed}
 * <tr><td>{@code [a..b)}  <td>{@code {x | a <= x < b}} <td>{@link Range#closedOpen closedOpen}
 * <tr><td>{@code (a..+∞)} <td>{@code {x | x > a}}      <td>{@link Range#greaterThan greaterThan}

   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code null} initial state, nothing has happened.
   *   <li>{@link Cancellation} terminal state, {@code cancel} was called.
   *   <li>{@link Failure} terminal state, {@code setException} was called.
   *   <li>{@link DelegatingToFuture} intermediate state, {@code setFuture} was called.
   *   <li>{@link #NULL} terminal state, {@code set(null)} was called.

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  }

  /**
   * Not supported. {@code ContiguousSet} instances are constructed with {@link #create}. This
   * method exists only to hide {@link ImmutableSet#builder} from consumers of {@code
   * ContiguousSet}.
   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated Use {@link #create}.
   */
  @Deprecated
  @DoNotCall("Always throws UnsupportedOperationException")

   * #synchronizedMultimap}.
   *
   * <p>Call this method only when the simpler methods {@link ArrayListMultimap#create()}, {@link
   * HashMultimap#create()}, {@link LinkedHashMultimap#create()}, {@link
   * LinkedListMultimap#create()}, {@link TreeMultimap#create()}, and {@link
   * TreeMultimap#create(Comparator, Comparator)} won't suffice.
   *

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link BiMap} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties detailed
 * at {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public abstract class ImmutableBiMap<K, V> extends ImmutableMap<K, V> implements BiMap<K, V> {

  /**

/**
 * Utility class for conversions related to {@link Byte}.
 *
 * @author higa
 */
public abstract class ByteConversionUtil {

    /**
     * Do not instantiate.
     */
    protected ByteConversionUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Byte}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link Byte}
     */

 * CollectionFeature} or {@link SetFeature}.
 *
 * <p>However, when {@link CollectionSize.Require} is used to annotate a test it behaves normally
 * (i.e. it requires the collection instance under test to be a certain size for the test to run).
 * Note that this means a test should not require more than one CollectionSize, since a particular
 * collection instance can only be one size at once.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
L46

   *       {@link Object#equals(Object)}.
   *   <li>{@code false} in all other situations.
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>This assumes that any non-null objects passed to this function conform to the {@code
   * equals()} contract.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated; use {@link
   * java.util.Objects#equals} instead.
   */