async def METHOD_NAME(self) -> str:
    """
    This custom handler is meant to mimic the behaviour of the existing
    version endpoint in MLflow's local dev server.
    For details about its implementation, please consult the original
    implementation in the MLflow repository:
        https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/blob/master/mlflow/pyfunc/scoring_server/__init__.py
    """
    return VERSION