way to validate while ignoring missing values

[samuelcolvin]

So if I have

def Foo(BaseModel):
  foo: int
  bar: str

Foo(foo=1) would raise a validation error as bar is missing, but Foo.ignore_missing(foo=1) would pass.

Perhaps this would be better achieved by modifying _process_values so it doesn't always raise validation errors but instead returns them and values.

[mhadam]

@samuelcolvin was something like Foo.ignore_missing(foo=1) ever implemented? I'd love a way to take off the guard-rails and type and use a model that allows me to annotate model fields as all required but allows for missing values at runtime.

In my use-case, I'm defining a model for a response that could contain many different keys, and those keys are dependent on what's specified in the request. So if I know the response is returned without error, I know which keys are present in the response. Technically all of the fields should be Optional, but in practice I only care about whether I'm handling the underlying datatype right, not whether the value is present. mypy is a bother, telling me to check for None every time I access a field.

Maybe a way to specify validation errors to ignore would work (e.g. value_error.missing)?

edit: In the meantime I'm just using Model.construct