Deprecate metadata as additional field kwargs, support explicit metadata=...#1702
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Add `metadata=...` as an explicit keyword argument, which dict-ifies a mapping, and treat any additional kwargs as "added metadata" which triggers a deprecation warning. This is backwards compatible *except* in the case where someone is already using `metadata` as the name of a metadata field. Which is probably never intentional if it's done at all. resolves marshmallow-code#1350
Yes. As long as we update with the extra kwargs. We don't want to modify the input dict. |
Rather than explicitly dict-ifying the input and conditionally running `update()`, combine data with dict expansion. Co-authored-by: Steven Loria <sloria1@gmail.com>
There is one test of field metadata which changed to use
`metadata={...}` and a single new test which ensures that you can use
either style for setting field metadata, but that if you use the
"arbitrary keyword arguments" pathway, a deprecation warning will be
emitted.
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I just made the testsuite updates (which are quite modest) for this and looked for any narrative docs which should be updated but didn't find any. The only question I have left -- since nobody has raised a big concern about doing this in 3.x -- is whether or not I should work on doc updates for apispec and other projects? |
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Sorry for the delayed response--yes, I think this is good to go into 3.x.
Good idea; it'd be good to prep for this in webargs and apispec (I think those are the only 2 marshmallow-code projects that use |
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Okay, awesome, I'll get started on apispec. I don't think there's anything in webargs to change anymore, but I'll double-check. |
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I've opened marshmallow-code/apispec#617 as a counterpart to this, but other than that I don't plan to do more. |
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I'm opening this to kickstart discussion (and volunteer to do any necessary work). I haven't rewritten any tests or added new tests or updated docs yet.
Add
metadata=...as an explicit keyword argument, which dict-ifies a mapping, and treat any additional kwargs as "added metadata" which triggers a deprecation warning.This is backwards compatible except in the case where someone is already using
metadataas the name of a metadata field. Which is probably never intentional if it's done at all.resolves #1350
Questions/TODOs on this:
metadata=...to kwargs in 3.x or does this whole change have to wait for 4.x ? (I don't think so, maybe others disagree.)dict(metadata)the right thing? Should we maybe do nothing with the input?metadatanowmarshmallowmarshmallow-codeprojects to updatemetadatastyle in docs when this merges?