From cefec13c53fba629266a388620deb6edb9a59318 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danielfromearth <daniel.kaufman@nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:18:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add missing return type annotation

---
 earthaccess/search.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/earthaccess/search.py b/earthaccess/search.py
index 4ea8dd75..f1a8681f 100644
--- a/earthaccess/search.py
+++ b/earthaccess/search.py
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ def __init__(self, auth: Any = None, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
 
         self._debug = False
 
-    def hits(self):
+    def hits(self) -> int:
         """
         Returns the number of hits the current query will return. This is done by
         making a lightweight query to CMR and inspecting the returned headers.