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.to_dict() returns object

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api

Research direction

Read src/cloudflare/_models.py around line 108 and inspect the current .to_dict() annotation and its callers. Determine whether the model can expose a more accurate generic type or should use dict[str, Any]; done means user type checking no longer reports the returned values as object.

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Description

Confirm this is a Python library issue and not an underlying Cloudflare API issue.
  • This is an issue with the Python library
Describe the bug

.to_dict() returns dict[str, object]:
https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-python/blob/475b534aadd740ae087967be82040bf0b365f8b9/src/cloudflare/_models.py#L108

This obviously creates type errors any time a user tries to use any of the values. If possible, the class should be made generic to return a more accurate type. If not, then the type should be dict[str, Any] in order to not create a load of type errors in user's code.

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