Ability to override nested class

[ddorian]

I need to override the nested class. This is to use the same object in different presentations. A simple example would be we have a User class. And we want 2 presentations of it, one as UserDetails (this is the User.Schema by default) on an API endpoint. The other as a UserEvent, which has a different schema altogether.

Is this approach ok? I can add tests etc.

[dairiki]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your goal here, but marshmallow_field can already be used to specify an explicit schema field for a particular dataclass field.

@dataclass
class Parent:
    user: User = field(metadata={marshmallow_field=marshmallow.field.Nested(UserEventSchema)})

[ddorian]

You're correct! Thank you!