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- cattrs version: 23.2.3
- Python version: 3.9
- Operating System: MacOS and Linux
Description
I have a set of classes that all inherit from one base class. I have one class that has a unique required attribute to differentiate it defined like this:
@define(kw_only=True, init=False)
class BadSubClass(BaseClass):
# This "arg1" field is used in other derived classes, but is never required in any other class.
# BTW, my converter has registered structure hooks for Union[str, List[str]], which forward to str_to_list.
arg1: Union[List[str], str] = field(converter=str_to_list) # Converter converts single str to a list.
other_arg1: Union[List[str], str] = field(factory=list, converter=str_to_list)
other_arg2: Optional[str] = None
I have a unit test which tries to structure json with this BadSubClass. About half the time I get an exception that the BaseClass deserializing got extra keys (the keys of BadSubClass). Well I say half the time, but now that I'm trying to recreate the error, it won't throw the error. (You might say I'm just crazy. You'd be right, but not for this reason.)
The question is, Has anyone seen this disambiguating problem, especially when it is transient like this?
What I Did
Test case looks like this:
def test_parse_bad_class():
# Aargh: cattrs is non-deterministic in whether it can deserialize this class.
# Should work all the time, but sometimes it throws an exception.
json_obj = {
"arg1": "foo",
"other_arg1": "blah"
"base_class_arg4": { # This is a different non-sub-class
"key1": "..."
},
}
result = my_converter.structure(json_obj, BaseClass)
assert isinstance(result, BadSubClass)