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Removal of pendulum dependency in kiota-python breaks earlier versions of msgraph-sdk

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

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with msgraph-sdk-python 1.0.0 and inspect its dependency declarations for microsoft-kiota-serialization-json and the other microsoft-kiota-* packages. Verify whether the installed versions change created_date_time and modified_date_time from pendulum.datetime, then confirm that the dependency constraints prevent this regression for existing releases.

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Describe the bug

We are using msgraph-sdk-python 1.0.0 to automate the download and copying of files from Sharepoint/OneDrive. Until this morning, fields such as created_date_time and modified_date_time were instances of pendulum.datetime.

kiota-python's dependency on pendulum was recenly removed ( https://github.com/microsoft/kiota-python/commit/8a66dc486eccc10d370a2f0e6459b1c91757ddfa ), and a new release (1.8.0) of the various kiota-python artifacts was published this morning. Since msgraph-sdk-python uses imprecise versioning for microsoft-kiota-* (i.e. microsoft-kiota-serialization-json >=1.3.0,<2.0.0"), the newly published version of microsoft-kiota-serialization-json is included with all previous releases of msgraph-sdk-python and our code which relies on created_date_time and modified_date_time being instances of pendulum.datetime breaks despite not updating to a new version of the library.

Expected behavior

Release versions of a publicly available library should use exact versioning for dependencies whenever possible so that changes in the library's dependencies do not break existing versions/releases of the library.

How to reproduce
  1. Install version 1.0.0 of msgraph-sdk-python
  2. Observe that instances of created_date_time and other datetime fields are instances of datetime.datetime.
SDK Version

1.0.0

Latest version known to work for scenario above?

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Known Workarounds

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