From 38e2addbb6b1b617a3918dace4df7e6d1e939cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kelly Brazil <kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:23:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] simplify type annotation for MetadataType

---
 jc/cli.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jc/cli.py b/jc/cli.py
index cd9c6f82..4483fefd 100644
--- a/jc/cli.py
+++ b/jc/cli.py
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ from .shell_completions import bash_completion, zsh_completion
 from . import tracebackplus
 from .exceptions import LibraryNotInstalled, ParseError
 
+MetadataType = Dict[
+    str,
+    Optional[Union[str, int, float, List[str], datetime]]
+]
+
 # make pygments import optional
 try:
     import pygments
@@ -598,7 +603,7 @@ class JcCli():
         even if there are no results.
         """
         if self.run_timestamp:
-            meta_obj: Dict[str, Optional[Union[str, int, float, List[str], datetime]]] = {
+            meta_obj: MetadataType = {
                 'parser': self.parser_name,
                 'timestamp': self.run_timestamp.timestamp()
             }