Open
Description
Description
I have a dataclass
that holds an attribute of list (if names was type of name and not list of Name, issue would not reproduce) of a class that inherits the basic type: string
.
When creating an instance of this class, converting it into json, writing said json to a file and later reading it and re-creating the object from it, the object structure is not identical to the previous object structure.
The attribute of list that contains objects which inherit the basic type creates the list objects as the basic type instead of their expected type.
Code snippet that reproduces the issue
import json
from dataclasses import dataclass
from dataclasses_json import DataClassJsonMixin
class Name(str):
...
@dataclass
class Person(DataClassJsonMixin):
names: list[Name]
if __name__ == '__main__':
johnny = Person(names=[Name('John Doe')])
with open('storage.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(johnny.to_json(), f)
...
with open('storage.json', 'r') as f:
johnny_again = Person.from_json(json.load(f))
print(isinstance(johnny_again.names[0], Name)) # prints: False
Describe the results you expected
As the original type was indeed Name (before being written into the file) I expected the object after reading the json to also be Name
Python version you are using
3.10
Environment description
Standard clean env. only used pip install dataclasses-json