With this, we get tooling support, from editors and mypy as this code is correct in terms of types, but we also get the data filtering from FastAPI.

How does this work? Let's check that out. 🤓

### Type Annotations and Tooling { #type-annotations-and-tooling }

First let's see how editors, mypy and other tools would see this.

/*
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

        this.handle = fh;
        this.filter = filter;
        this.recursive = recursive;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * @see jcifs.SmbWatchHandle#watch()
     */
    @Override
    public List<FileNotifyInformation> watch() throws CIFSException {
        if (!this.handle.isValid()) {

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A TimeLimiter implementation which actually does not attempt to limit time at all. This may be
 * desirable to use in some unit tests. More importantly, attempting to debug a call which is
 * time-limited would be extremely annoying, so this gives you a time-limiter you can easily swap in
 * for your real time-limiter while you're debugging.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion

 * Copyright (C) 2002  "Michael B. Allen" <jcifs at samba dot org>
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

/*
 * Copyright 2012-2025 CodeLibs Project and the Others.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

   * that conversion is safe.
   *
   * <p>This method is intended to help with usages of type parameters that have {@linkplain
   * ParametricNullness parametric nullness}. If a type parameter instead ranges over only non-null
   * types (or if the type is a non-variable type, like {@code String}), then code should almost
   * never use this method, preferring instead to call {@code requireNonNull} so as to benefit from

/*
 * © 2025 CodeLibs, Inc.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

// Copyright (c) 2015-2021 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful

        }
        this.ansiHash = ansiHash;
        this.unicodeHash = unicodeHash;
        this.hashesExternal = true;
    }

    /**
     * Get the CIFS context associated with this authentication.
     *
     * @return the CIFS context
     */
    protected CIFSContext getContext() {
        return this.context;
    }

    @Override