Remove redundant types from comments. (#14412)

Remove type hints from comments which have been added
as Python type hints. This helps avoid drift between comments
and reality, as well as removing redundant information.

Also adds some missing type hints which were simple to fill in.

6 files changed, 18 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/http/additional_resource.py b/synapse/http/additional_resource.py
index 6a9f6635d2..8729630581 100644
--- a/synapse/http/additional_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/http/additional_resource.py
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ class AdditionalResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
 
         Args:
             hs: homeserver
-            handler ((twisted.web.server.Request) -> twisted.internet.defer.Deferred):
-                function to be called to handle the request.
+            handler: function to be called to handle the request.
         """
         super().__init__()
         self._handler = handler
diff --git a/synapse/http/federation/matrix_federation_agent.py b/synapse/http/federation/matrix_federation_agent.py
index 2f0177f1e2..0359231e7d 100644
--- a/synapse/http/federation/matrix_federation_agent.py
+++ b/synapse/http/federation/matrix_federation_agent.py
@@ -155,11 +155,10 @@ class MatrixFederationAgent:
                 a file for a file upload).  Or None if the request is to have
                 no body.
         Returns:
-            Deferred[twisted.web.iweb.IResponse]:
-                fires when the header of the response has been received (regardless of the
-                response status code). Fails if there is any problem which prevents that
-                response from being received (including problems that prevent the request
-                from being sent).
+            A deferred which fires when the header of the response has been received
+            (regardless of the response status code). Fails if there is any problem
+            which prevents that response from being received (including problems that
+            prevent the request from being sent).
         """
         # We use urlparse as that will set `port` to None if there is no
         # explicit port.
diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
index 3c35b1d2c7..b92f1d3d1a 100644
--- a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
+++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
@@ -951,8 +951,7 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient:
 
             args: query params
         Returns:
-            dict|list: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The
-            result will be the decoded JSON body.
+            Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result will be the decoded JSON body.
 
         Raises:
             HttpResponseException: If we get an HTTP response code >= 300
diff --git a/synapse/http/proxyagent.py b/synapse/http/proxyagent.py
index 1f8227896f..18899bc6d1 100644
--- a/synapse/http/proxyagent.py
+++ b/synapse/http/proxyagent.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from twisted.web.client import (
 )
 from twisted.web.error import SchemeNotSupported
 from twisted.web.http_headers import Headers
-from twisted.web.iweb import IAgent, IBodyProducer, IPolicyForHTTPS
+from twisted.web.iweb import IAgent, IBodyProducer, IPolicyForHTTPS, IResponse
 
 from synapse.http import redact_uri
 from synapse.http.connectproxyclient import HTTPConnectProxyEndpoint, ProxyCredentials
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class ProxyAgent(_AgentBase):
         uri: bytes,
         headers: Optional[Headers] = None,
         bodyProducer: Optional[IBodyProducer] = None,
-    ) -> defer.Deferred:
+    ) -> "defer.Deferred[IResponse]":
         """
         Issue a request to the server indicated by the given uri.
 
@@ -157,17 +157,17 @@ class ProxyAgent(_AgentBase):
                 a file upload). Or, None if the request is to have no body.
 
         Returns:
-            Deferred[IResponse]: completes when the header of the response has
-                 been received (regardless of the response status code).
+            A deferred which completes when the header of the response has
+            been received (regardless of the response status code).
 
-                 Can fail with:
-                    SchemeNotSupported: if the uri is not http or https
+            Can fail with:
+                SchemeNotSupported: if the uri is not http or https
 
-                    twisted.internet.error.TimeoutError if the server we are connecting
-                        to (proxy or destination) does not accept a connection before
-                        connectTimeout.
+                twisted.internet.error.TimeoutError if the server we are connecting
+                    to (proxy or destination) does not accept a connection before
+                    connectTimeout.
 
-                    ... other things too.
+                ... other things too.
         """
         uri = uri.strip()
         if not _VALID_URI.match(uri):
diff --git a/synapse/http/server.py b/synapse/http/server.py
index b26e34bceb..051a1899a0 100644
--- a/synapse/http/server.py
+++ b/synapse/http/server.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class HttpServer(Protocol):
                 request. The first argument will be the request object and
                 subsequent arguments will be any matched groups from the regex.
                 This should return either tuple of (code, response), or None.
-            servlet_classname (str): The name of the handler to be used in prometheus
+            servlet_classname: The name of the handler to be used in prometheus
                 and opentracing logs.
         """
 
diff --git a/synapse/http/site.py b/synapse/http/site.py
index 3dbd541fed..6a1dbf7f33 100644
--- a/synapse/http/site.py
+++ b/synapse/http/site.py
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ class SynapseRequest(Request):
         be sure to call finished_processing.
 
         Args:
-            servlet_name (str): the name of the servlet which will be
+            servlet_name: the name of the servlet which will be
                 processing this request. This is used in the metrics.
 
                 It is possible to update this afterwards by updating