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A serialized DASCore model did not say what it was, so a document could only be read back by something which already knew what it held. Position supplied that knowledge inside a nested document and nothing supplied it anywhere else, which is why a custom PatchAttrs subclass never survived a round trip:

patch.io.write(path, "dasdae")
type(dc.read(path)[0].attrs)   # PatchAttrs, not AI4EPSPatchAttrs

Every model now names its class when serialized, resolved through a registry. Discussion: #888.

A registered name, never an import path

object_type: Cable, or object_type: myplugin:Square out of tree. A dotted path would weld stored documents to today's module layout, so moving a class between modules would break every file on disk, and resolving one out of user data is an arbitrary-import surface in a format meant to be read from someone else's archive. The namespace is derived from the declaring package rather than declared, so a plugin's models are namespaced with no ceremony and no way to squat a bare name. FiberIO is the in-house precedent.

Written in text serializations only

A python-mode dump is not a document: it is what __eq__ compares, what new() reconstructs from, and what the spool index ingests. A key which is not a field belongs in none of those, so the serializer injects only in json mode, and the whole hot path is untouched by construction rather than by audit. A test pins it.

The validator is the other half and is mode-independent. It never requires a tag — a document dispatches on one before a model sees it, and a nested or hand-written object may simply not state it — and it acts only on a value which names a class it knows: that one it checks and consumes, and anything else it leaves alone. PatchAttrs keeps extra fields, so this key can be a reader's own metadata, and eating it would lose that silently. A tag DASCore wrote always resolves.

type is now object_type

The nine models sharing the two discriminated unions declare the tag as a real field, which pydantic needs to pick a class before an object exists. Renaming it is what lets the base class recognize those models and leave them alone; before the rename they serialized type and object_type side by side, naming themselves twice. A more specific key also makes the collision it has to survive rare: PatchAttrs allows extras, and type is a far more plausible attribute for a reader to emit than object_type.

This is the last moment the rename is free: it reaches the authoring format's file declarations and its union CSV column, and no file states either yet.

The authoring loader's coupling inverts with it. It read type and popped it for the models where it was not a field, since inventory models forbid extras; now every model reads its own, so the pop is gone and the test which pinned which models carry the field also asserts that each accepts and checks it.

An optional number is OptionalFiniteFloat

Independent of the above and a prerequisite for it: AI4EPSPatchAttrs could not be rebuilt from its own model_dump_json(). magnitude: float = np.nan serializes to null, and a float field then refuses None. 12 classes across 11 modules were affected — one more module than the discussion counted (silixah5), and sintela has two. ProdMLFbePatchAttrs.end_frequency = np.inf is the same defect wearing a different value.

Naming the class is worth nothing until this is fixed: dispatch would find the right class, which would then refuse to build.

The internal machinery never saw these values anyway — values_equal counts null equal to null, _hash_key maps nan to None, and the index skips anything pd.isnull, so a nan-defaulted field never reached a column. What changes is what a reader sees: None where it used to be nan.

The type reads a non-finite value as an absent one rather than refusing it, which matters more than it sounds. Readers hand vendor header floats straight to these classes — a Sintela <f4 header, ProdML HDF5 attrs, xml_binary XML text — and NaN is the conventional "unknown" marker in all three. Refusing it would raise a bare pydantic error out of dc.read, and worse, _iter_scan_results catches ValueError, so a single NaN gauge length would have dropped that file out of a spool index behind a generic "failed to scan" warning.

DASDAE records the class beside the values

DASDAE writes attrs one at a time into HDF5 attrs rather than as one document, so there is nothing to inject a tag into. The class is written as a sibling key, deliberately outside the _attrs_ prefix: attrs allow extras, so a patch may carry one spelled like the key. A file which names no class, or names a format which is not installed, still reads as plain PatchAttrs — which is what such a file always gave.

Where it lives

dascore/utils/models.py held the annotated types, the base model and the inventory bases, and a registry and serializer were about to join them. It is now a dascore/models/ package (types, base, registry), with the old path re-exporting so out-of-tree readers which import their types from it keep working.

That made the base class worth defining: it means "can appear in a DASCore document". The Sintela protobuf parsers and the mute geometries want validation and nothing else it offers — they carry values between two functions in one module and are never serialized — so they moved to plain pydantic models rather than being enrolled in machinery they do not participate in.

PatchSummary.attrs gained SerializeAsAny for the same reason. It was already lossy — a base-typed field serializes a subclass through the declared schema and drops its fields — but a tag turns lossy into untrue: the document names a class whose data it does not contain. I had meant to defer it; naming the class is what made deferring it untenable.

Not in this PR

Several proc and transform paths hard-code the base class in memory (proc/basic.py:120, transform/fourier.py), so in-memory subclass identity is still lost across those operations. Pre-existing and orthogonal.

A subclass of a union member declared out of tree serializes as its parent (PluginCable(Cable) writes object_type: Cable), because the Literal is inherited. Writing its real tag would produce a document the closed union refuses to read, so the parent's value is deliberately kept and pinned by a test. This is the discussion's "open set of types", and it needs the union to open before it can be fixed.

The loader's _model_names() still walks subclasses to answer a question the registry now answers. Left alone as scope; it feeds one error message.

Review

Six reviewers in parallel and blind to each other: five subagents by lens and Codex as the non-Claude perspective. 23 correctness findings.

The one they agreed on independently — the redundancy and correctness lenses, from different directions — was the plugin sweep setting its "already swept" flag before doing the imports, so a second thread reading a DASDAE file written by a not-yet-imported format would warn "not installed" and silently downgrade that patch's attrs, while the same file read serially returned the subclass.

Two findings arrived as a matched pair. The correctness lens showed that FiniteFloat refuses NaN, not merely stops defaulting to it; the blast-radius lens showed where that lands, in _iter_scan_results. Neither is alarming alone.

The reviewers also found three of my tests that could not fail, one of them proved by mutation: removing the guard it claimed to pin left the whole suite green.

What no reviewer found, the test suite did. @model_serializer(mode="wrap", when_used="json") is the natural way to say "json only" and it silently breaks include/exclude: pydantic skips the whole wrapper in python mode, and the field filtering goes with it. Patch.equals dumps with include, so 36 taper, rolling and Fourier tests failed at once. The mode is checked inside the serializer instead, and a test pins the interaction.

Type checking found one on its own: resolve_tagged_model never checked the class it resolved against the caller's default, so a DASDAE file whose class key said Cable would have handed a Cable to a reader expecting attrs.

Changelog

  • fixed: every PatchAttrs subclass can now be reconstructed from its own model_dump_json(). A float defaulting to nan serialized to null and then refused to read it back.
  • fixed: dc.read rebuilds the PatchAttrs subclass a DASDAE file was written with, rather than returning the base class.
  • added: a serialized model names its class in an object_type key, resolved through a registry, so a document can be read back without knowing in advance what it holds.
  • changed breaking: optional numeric attrs on format-specific PatchAttrs subclasses (gauge_length, pulse_width, and others across eleven formats) default to None rather than nan. A non-finite value read from a file is now stored as None.
  • fixed: PatchSummary.dump_structured keeps the fields a PatchAttrs subclass declares, which it previously dropped.
  • added: dascore.models holds the model layer; dascore.utils.models re-exports it and keeps working.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a centralized models API with reusable validation, serialization, equality, hashing, time-range, and numeric types.
    • Added reliable model-tag registration and resolution for serialized data.
    • DASDAE files now preserve custom patch-attribute classes during round trips.
    • Added clearer errors for invalid serialized model tags.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Inventory resources now use the object_type discriminator.
    • Optional numeric metadata consistently uses None instead of NaN or infinity.
    • Patch-attribute subclass details are preserved during serialization.
  • Documentation
    • Documented custom patch attributes and optional numeric values.

utils/models.py held annotated types, the base model and the inventory
bases; a registry and a tag serializer were about to join them. Split
into a package and leave the old path re-exporting, since out-of-tree
readers import their types from it.
The mute geometries and the Sintela protobuf parsers want validation and
nothing else the base offers: they carry values between two functions
inside one module and are never serialized. Leaving them on the base
would enroll them in a document machinery none of them participate in.
A float defaulting to nan writes null and then refuses to read it, so
twelve format classes could not reconstruct from their own json. An
optional number is spelled FiniteFloat | None, which the inventory
models already used and which nan cannot enter; FiniteFloat moves beside
the other shared types. The walk covers formats added later.
A model did not say what it was when serialized, so a document could only
be read by something which already knew. Every model now writes an
object_type naming a registered class, and reads one back, so a custom
PatchAttrs survives a round trip and a standalone object can be read on
its own.

The tag is written in text serializations only: a python-mode dump is
what equality compares, what new() reconstructs from and what the spool
index ingests, none of which want a key that is not a field. The five
resource models keep their own object_type field, which pydantic needs to
pick a class before an object exists; renaming it from 'type' is what
lets the base class recognize and leave them alone, and the loader stops
popping what every model now reads for itself.
DASDAE writes attr values one at a time into HDF5 attrs rather than one
document, so nothing carried the class and every custom PatchAttrs came
back as the base. The class is now named beside the values, and read
through the registry: a file which names none, or names a format which
is not installed, still reads as plain attrs.
Type checking caught the hole: the registry holds every model, so a file
naming any of them resolved, and a DASDAE file whose class key said
'Cable' would have been handed to a reader expecting attrs. Document the
subclasses and how an optional number is spelled.
A tag DASCore could write but not read: a package whose name starts with
a capital, which is legal and common, produced a namespace the grammar
refused, and the refusal came before the fallback so such a file could
not be read at all. The grammar takes it, and a class which still cannot
be named is not named rather than named unreadably.

An absent number is now OptionalFiniteFloat, which reads a non-finite one
as absent instead of refusing it. Refusing was the worse half of the nan
migration: readers hand vendor header floats straight to these classes,
and a scan swallows a ValidationError as 'failed to scan', so one NaN
gauge length would have dropped a file out of a spool silently. Four bare
float fields the first pass missed are migrated with them.

A value which names no known class is left alone rather than consumed,
since attrs keep extra fields and eating one loses a reader's metadata.
Two classes claiming one tag now stop it resolving instead of quietly
picking the last registered. A union member's tag survives exclude flags.
PatchSummary.attrs serializes as what it holds, or the tag names a class
whose fields the document lacks. The mute geometries keep DASCore's
equality, which their ndarray fields need.

Tests: the union-member test counted json keys, which a dict cannot
duplicate; it now pins the value through a subclass whose tag and Literal
disagree. The class walk asserts a floor, since a plugin failing to
import would otherwise shrink it silently. The round trip compares text,
not models, because equality counts every null equal to every other.
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The pull request adds centralized Pydantic models, typed validation, and model-tag registry support. It migrates inventory discriminators to object_type, preserves DASDAE attribute subclasses, replaces non-finite numeric defaults, updates imports, and adds tests and documentation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Centralized model foundation
dascore/models/*, dascore/exceptions.py, dascore/utils/models.py
Adds shared model types, base classes, equality and hashing helpers, time-range models, model registration, tag resolution, exceptions, and compatibility exports.
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dascore/core/inventory.py, dascore/core/inventory_loader.py
Inventory models and unions use object_type. Loader validation uses the centralized TAG_FIELD.
I/O attributes and subclass serialization
dascore/io/*, dascore/core/summary.py
Optional numeric fields use OptionalFiniteFloat with None defaults. DASDAE records and restores registered PatchAttrs subclasses.
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dascore/core/*, dascore/proc/*, dascore/utils/*, dascore/io/core.py
Internal imports use dascore.models, compatibility exports remain available, and FiberIO uses FIBER_IO_GROUP.
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tests/test_models.py, tests/test_core/*, tests/test_io/test_dasdae/*, docs/*
Adds coverage for model behavior, registry resolution, inventory tags, DASDAE fallback behavior, subclass serialization, and optional numeric fields.

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  • DASDAE/dascore#843: Introduced inventory model infrastructure extended by this change.
  • DASDAE/dascore#889: Updated inventory loader and discriminator behavior used by this change.
  • DASDAE/dascore#880: Added related frozen-mapping and equality/hash infrastructure later centralized in dascore.models.

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declared = data.get("type")
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P1 Badge Continue accepting the previous type discriminator

Existing inventory directories written for schema version 1 declare every object with type, but _declared_type now checks only object_type; consequently dc.inventory(path) treats those files as untyped and fails with “declares no object_type.” Since this commit neither bumps the inventory schema version nor provides a migration path, accept type as a legacy alias while emitting object_type for new documents.

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model_config = ConfigDict(title="Patch Summary", extra="ignore", frozen=True)

attrs: PatchAttrs = Field(default_factory=PatchAttrs)
attrs: SerializeAsAny[PatchAttrs] = Field(default_factory=PatchAttrs)

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P2 Badge Resolve tagged attrs when loading a PatchSummary

When PatchSummary.attrs is a format-specific subclass, SerializeAsAny now writes its fields and object_type, but a JSON round trip still passes the nested mapping through PatchAttrs.from_dict in _normalize_input. That validator only accepts and removes a subclass tag; it does not instantiate the named subclass, so PatchSummary.model_validate_json(summary.model_dump_json()).attrs becomes plain PatchAttrs and loses the subclass's typed validation. Resolve the nested tag before constructing the attrs value.

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493-493: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use self._entry_point instead of the module constant.

_FiberIOManager.__init__ accepts entry_point and stores it in self._entry_point (Line 450). _eps now ignores that value and always reads FIBER_IO_GROUP. The constructor parameter becomes dead for lookup, so a manager built for another group would silently load FiberIO plugins. Passing FIBER_IO_GROUP at Line 943 keeps current behavior identical.

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In `@dascore/io/dasdae/utils.py`:
- Around line 184-194: Update _get_attrs_class to catch InvalidModelTagError
raised while resolving the stored attrs-class tag, then return PatchAttrs as the
fallback for malformed or ambiguous tags. Pass the current patch_group as source
to resolve_tagged_model so genuine resolution errors identify their group, and
add the required exception import.

In `@dascore/utils/models.py`:
- Line 16: Add an explicit Ruff suppression for PLE0604 on the __all__
assignment in the module, preserving the existing unpacking of _models_all and
the "BaseModel" entry.

In `@tests/test_models.py`:
- Around line 522-526: Strengthen the subclass-preservation tests: in
tests/test_models.py lines 522-526, assert the reconstructed value from
PatchAttrs.model_validate_json is a SintelaPatchAttrs and retains gauge_length
== 10.0; in tests/test_io/test_dasdae/test_dasdae.py lines 364-366, store the
scanned attributes result and assert attrs.gauge_length == 10.0.

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Comment on lines +184 to +194
def _get_attrs_class(patch_group) -> type[PatchAttrs]:
"""
Return the attrs class a patch group names, or the base class.

A file written before the class was recorded names nothing, and one
written by a format which is no longer installed names something
unresolvable; both read as plain attrs, which is what such a file
always used to give.
"""
tag = unbyte(patch_group.attrs.get(_ATTRS_CLASS_KEY, None))
return resolve_tagged_model(tag or None, default=PatchAttrs)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make an illegal stored tag fall back instead of failing the read.

resolve_tagged_model consults default only for a tag that is legal but unregistered. For a tag that does not match TAG_PATTERN, or one that two classes claim, resolve_model_tag raises InvalidModelTagError before the default applies. A DASDAE file whose __attrs_class__ value is malformed then fails to read at all, although the attr values are intact and the docstring promises plain attrs for a file whose class cannot be resolved.

Catch the error and fall back, and pass source so a genuine problem names its group.

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 def _get_attrs_class(patch_group) -> type[PatchAttrs]:
     """
     Return the attrs class a patch group names, or the base class.

     A file written before the class was recorded names nothing, and one
     written by a format which is no longer installed names something
     unresolvable; both read as plain attrs, which is what such a file
     always used to give.
     """
     tag = unbyte(patch_group.attrs.get(_ATTRS_CLASS_KEY, None))
-    return resolve_tagged_model(tag or None, default=PatchAttrs)
+    try:
+        return resolve_tagged_model(tag or None, default=PatchAttrs, source=patch_group.name)
+    except InvalidModelTagError:
+        # A tag which could never name a class says nothing about the
+        # values stored beside it, which are still readable as attrs.
+        return PatchAttrs

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+from dascore.exceptions import InvalidModelTagError
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def _get_attrs_class(patch_group) -> type[PatchAttrs]:
"""
Return the attrs class a patch group names, or the base class.
A file written before the class was recorded names nothing, and one
written by a format which is no longer installed names something
unresolvable; both read as plain attrs, which is what such a file
always used to give.
"""
tag = unbyte(patch_group.attrs.get(_ATTRS_CLASS_KEY, None))
return resolve_tagged_model(tag or None, default=PatchAttrs)
def _get_attrs_class(patch_group) -> type[PatchAttrs]:
"""
Return the attrs class a patch group names, or the base class.
A file written before the class was recorded names nothing, and one
written by a format which is no longer installed names something
unresolvable; both read as plain attrs, which is what such a file
always used to give.
"""
tag = unbyte(patch_group.attrs.get(_ATTRS_CLASS_KEY, None))
try:
return resolve_tagged_model(
tag or None, default=PatchAttrs, source=patch_group.name
)
except InvalidModelTagError:
# A tag which could never name a class says nothing about the
# values stored beside it, which are still readable as attrs.
return PatchAttrs
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In `@dascore/io/dasdae/utils.py` around lines 184 - 194, Update _get_attrs_class
to catch InvalidModelTagError raised while resolving the stored attrs-class tag,
then return PatchAttrs as the fallback for malformed or ambiguous tags. Pass the
current patch_group as source to resolve_tagged_model so genuine resolution
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Comment thread dascore/utils/models.py
first_starts_before = pd.isnull(e2) or pd.isnull(s1) or s1 < e2
second_starts_before = pd.isnull(e1) or pd.isnull(s2) or s2 < e1
return bool(first_starts_before and second_starts_before)
__all__ = [*_models_all, "BaseModel"]

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Silence PLE0604 for the unpacked __all__.

Ruff cannot resolve _models_all statically and reports "Invalid object in __all__, must contain only strings". The runtime value is a list of strings, so the finding is a false positive. If the rule is enabled in CI, the lint step still fails. Add an explicit suppression.

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+__all__ = [*_models_all, "BaseModel"]  # noqa: PLE0604
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__all__ = [*_models_all, "BaseModel"]
__all__ = [*_models_all, "BaseModel"] # noqa: PLE0604
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[error] 16-16: Invalid object in __all__, must contain only strings

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In `@dascore/utils/models.py` at line 16, Add an explicit Ruff suppression for
PLE0604 on the __all__ assignment in the module, preserving the existing
unpacking of _models_all and the "BaseModel" entry.

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Comment thread tests/test_models.py
Comment on lines +522 to +526
def test_a_subclass_reads_back_through_its_base(self):
"""The document holds everything the base declares, so this is fine."""
attrs = SintelaPatchAttrs(gauge_length=10.0)
out = PatchAttrs.model_validate_json(attrs.model_dump_json())
assert out.gauge_length == 10.0

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert both subclass type and subclass fields after reconstruction.

The tests each verify only one part of subclass preservation. A regression can return base PatchAttrs with retained extras, or return the subclass with a reset custom value, and remain undetected.

  • tests/test_models.py#L522-L526: Assert that PatchAttrs.model_validate_json(...) returns SintelaPatchAttrs.
  • tests/test_io/test_dasdae/test_dasdae.py#L364-L366: Store the scanned attrs and assert attrs.gauge_length == 10.0.
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  • tests/test_models.py#L522-L526 (this comment)
  • tests/test_io/test_dasdae/test_dasdae.py#L364-L366
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In `@tests/test_models.py` around lines 522 - 526, Strengthen the
subclass-preservation tests: in tests/test_models.py lines 522-526, assert the
reconstructed value from PatchAttrs.model_validate_json is a SintelaPatchAttrs
and retains gauge_length == 10.0; in tests/test_io/test_dasdae/test_dasdae.py
lines 364-366, store the scanned attributes result and assert attrs.gauge_length
== 10.0.

WebAssembly has no subprocesses, and the wasm suite deselects the marker
which says a test spawns one. The compat shim had no coverage because
nothing in the repo imports it any more -- which is the point of it, and
also why nothing was checking that it still re-exports what it promises.
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d-chambers added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 13, 2026
#891 moved the pydantic base classes and their annotated types out of
dascore.utils.models into a dascore.models package, which took them off the
utilities page that had been documenting them. Give them a reference section
of their own, along with the two registry calls a package registering its own
model would use; the rest of the tagging machinery stays internal. The
package docstring links to DascoreBaseModel, so the link now resolves too.
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