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PyLance does not appreciate @serializable.serializable_class

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#8 opened on Jun 15, 2023

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Inadvertantly opened this ticket half way through writing the subject.

PyLance thinks that serializable.serializable_class decorated classes are untyped. I'm unsure if there is a proper way to resolve type based issues. The "fix" seems to be to have one undecorated class and one decorated class that references the former: i.e. "MyThing" and "SerializableMyThing" in order to allow for casting in individual programs.

Looking forward to some insight on this. CycloneDX-Python-Lib makes use of this library and it can be a bit cumbersome to work with classes provided by that library. Attempting to cast falls into the same trap.

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Investigate PyLance's type checking for decorated classes. Check if @serializable.serializable class returns a class or modifies the class in a way that hides type information. Explore adding type stubs or using typing.cast to provide type hints.
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