Bug: Set[Enum] hangs for too large collection length

[adrianeboyd]

Description

A model using Set[Enum] hangs when the collection length exceeds the size of the enum.

The example below is intended to be reproducible, I think you'd run into it more typically in practice with a randomized collection length and a (default) max collection length that's larger than the size of the set.

URL to code causing the issue

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MCVE

from enum import Enum
from typing import Set

from polyfactory.factories.pydantic_factory import ModelFactory
from pydantic import BaseModel

class WithSetEnum(BaseModel):
    things: Set[Enum("Thing", ["a", "b", "c"])]

class WithSetEnumFactory(ModelFactory):
    __model__ = WithSetEnum
    __randomize_collection_length__ = True
    __min_collection_length__ = 4

WithSetEnumFactory.build()

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Release Version

2.16.2

Platform

• [X] Linux
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[Alc-Alc]

As you have identified, this only happens when a set is used with enums and if the expected length of this set is higher than the enum members (it will never find find elements to satisfy this, so it keeps looping). What can be the expected behavior here?

If __min_collection_length__ > len(finite_members) and if "container is a type that guarantees uniqueness and the possible elements themselves are finite", I can think of two ways.

• Throw an exception
• Return all the elements of the enum in the resulting set (I can see this as a similar behavior to python sets {1, 1, 1} does not error out, it is the same as {1})

[adrianeboyd]

With the combination of the default max collection length (that you can't differentiate from a user-specified value?) and the fact that it seems difficult to set max length values for individual fields, I would think all enum values (+ potentially a warning, but the library doesn't seem to use warnings much) is better than an exception?