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Body from `RequestValidationResult` not a dict anymore

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by tracing how RequestValidationResult exposes its body in openapi-core 0.6.0 and how the returned Model is represented. Reproduce the behavior with a Flask request and dacite, then review the expected boundary between validated model data and a plain dictionary. Done should be a decided, documented way to obtain the validated body representation.

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Description

Hi guys,

I upgraded openapi-core on my project to 0.6.0, and now when I get an instance of RequestValidationResult and try to access the request body, it's a Model instance now, and I can't get it easily transformed to a plain dictionary to be used elsewhere - for example with dacite.from_dict, which I'm also using together with openapi-core.

I could get the plain dict body from the Flask request instead, but it would be nice if I could keep using the result.body instead, as this leads to a better design - it makes it clear that the body was validated.

Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Can the library receive an implementation change so that it's easier to get the dict representation of the model? Or should I go on and use Flask's request object instead?

Thanks,
Diogo

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