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[Bug]: minItems and maxItems are not validated

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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

Start with the requests integration's unmarshaling validation and reproduce the reported behavior using an array schema with minItems and maxItems. Add a regression test covering invalid array lengths, then verify that validation raises InvalidData consistently with maxlength, maximum, and enum cases.

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Description

kind/bug
Actual Behavior

Validaton of (requests) request having json body with array ignore when minItems or maxItems are exeded.

Expected Behavior

It raise InvalidData exeption simarly as for maxlength maximum enum,...

Steps to Reproduce

write test of validation different wrong values

OpenAPI Core Version

openapi-core 0.17.1, openapi-schema-validator 0.4.4, openapi-spec-validator 0.5.6

OpenAPI Core Integration

requests

Affected Area(s)

unmarshaling

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Python
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