From 47dd7d2e3b62a46f2389b714770e009733aad6fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Villon CHEN <villon.chen@oppida.fr>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:29:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] perf: move type import to `TYPE_CHECKING` to reduce import
 time

---
 codesectools/sasts/tools/Cppcheck/parser.py | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codesectools/sasts/tools/Cppcheck/parser.py b/codesectools/sasts/tools/Cppcheck/parser.py
index bdb6819..017db8f 100644
--- a/codesectools/sasts/tools/Cppcheck/parser.py
+++ b/codesectools/sasts/tools/Cppcheck/parser.py
@@ -5,14 +5,19 @@
 format used by CodeSecTools.
 """
 
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Self
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Self
 
 from codesectools.sasts.core.parser import AnalysisResult, Defect
 from codesectools.shared.cwe import CWE, CWEs
 from codesectools.utils import MissingFile
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from lxml.etree import ElementTree
+
 
 class CppcheckError(Defect):
     """Represent a single error reported by Cppcheck."""
@@ -47,8 +52,6 @@ def __init__(
 class CppcheckAnalysisResult(AnalysisResult):
     """Represent the complete result of a Cppcheck analysis."""
 
-    from lxml.etree import ElementTree
-
     def __init__(self, output_dir: Path, xml_tree: ElementTree, cmdout: dict) -> None:
         """Initialize a CppcheckAnalysisResult instance.