Type hinting for common functions

[cyberw]

Now that we have updated to python 3.6 we can have sensible type hinting ("->" syntax for methods for example). We should add that.

[anuj-ssharma]

Hey, I was hoping to pick this up ! What do you mean by "common" functions in this context ?

[cyberw]

Hey, I was hoping to pick this up ! What do you mean by "common" functions in this context ?

I am primarily talking about the ones exposed to the end user.

The end goal is that things like self.client.post() and basic Locust properties (for example wait_time) should be picked up by a user's IDE (for example vscode) and type errors be picked up when checked with MyPy (http://mypy-lang.org/).

[cyberw]

Lets do this after 1.0. I tried some stuff, but it is harder than it seems and I dont want to delay 1.0

[heyman]

The API documentation should provide a good list of functions and methods that we would like to add type hinting for.