But at some point, there was no other option than creating something that provided all these features, taking the best ideas from previous tools, and combining them in the best way possible, using language features that weren't even available before (Python 3.6+ type hints).

## Previous tools { #previous-tools }

### <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Django</a> { #django }

       * If the entry has been removed from the map, we return null, even though that might not be a
       * valid value. That's the best we can do, short of holding a reference to the most recently
       * seen value. And while we *could* do that, we aren't required to: Map.Entry explicitly says
       * that behavior is undefined when the backing map is modified through another API. (It even

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        void testMaximumValues() {
            byte[] testBuffer = new byte[8];
            ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(testBuffer).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
            bb.putShort((short) 0xFFFE); // Max even pathConsumed
            bb.putShort((short) 0); // numReferrals
            bb.putShort((short) 0xFFFF); // Max tflags
            bb.putShort((short) 0); // tflags high bytes

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   *
   * @param streamId client-initiated stream ID.  Must be an odd number.
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   * @param requestHeaders minimally includes `:method`, `:scheme`, `:authority`, and `:path`.
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