mypy and python type hints are not powerful enough to properly describe
JSON messages in Python 3.6. The best we can do, generally, is describe
them as Dict[str, Any].
Add casts to coerce this type for static analysis; but do NOT enforce
this type at runtime in any way.
Note: Python 3.8 adds a TypedDict construct which allows for the
description of more arbitrary Dictionary shapes. There is a third-party
module, "Pydantic", which is compatible with 3.6 that can be used
instead of the JSON library that parses JSON messages to fully-typed
Python objects, and may be preferable in some cases.
(That is well beyond the scope of this commit or series.)
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200710052220.3306-6-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
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