## Summary
Implement validation for `TypedDict` constructor calls and dictionary
literal assignments, including support for `total=False` and proper
field management.
Also add support for `Required` and `NotRequired` type qualifiers in
`TypedDict` classes, along with proper inheritance behavior and the
`total=` parameter.
Support both constructor calls and dict literal syntax
part of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/154
### Basic Required Field Validation
```py
class Person(TypedDict):
name: str
age: int | None
# Error: Missing required field 'name' in TypedDict `Person` constructor
incomplete = Person(age=25)
# Error: Invalid argument to key "name" with declared type `str` on TypedDict `Person`
wrong_type = Person(name=123, age=25)
# Error: Invalid key access on TypedDict `Person`: Unknown key "extra"
extra_field = Person(name="Bob", age=25, extra=True)
```
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### Support for `total=False`
```py
class OptionalPerson(TypedDict, total=False):
name: str
age: int | None
# All valid - all fields are optional with total=False
charlie = OptionalPerson()
david = OptionalPerson(name="David")
emily = OptionalPerson(age=30)
frank = OptionalPerson(name="Frank", age=25)
# But type validation and extra fields still apply
invalid_type = OptionalPerson(name=123) # Error: Invalid argument type
invalid_extra = OptionalPerson(extra=True) # Error: Invalid key access
```
### Dictionary Literal Validation
```py
# Type checking works for both constructors and dict literals
person: Person = {"name": "Alice", "age": 30}
reveal_type(person["name"]) # revealed: str
reveal_type(person["age"]) # revealed: int | None
# Error: Invalid key access on TypedDict `Person`: Unknown key "non_existing"
reveal_type(person["non_existing"]) # revealed: Unknown
```
### `Required`, `NotRequired`, `total`
```python
from typing import TypedDict
from typing_extensions import Required, NotRequired
class PartialUser(TypedDict, total=False):
name: Required[str] # Required despite total=False
age: int # Optional due to total=False
email: NotRequired[str] # Explicitly optional (redundant)
class User(TypedDict):
name: Required[str] # Explicitly required (redundant)
age: int # Required due to total=True
bio: NotRequired[str] # Optional despite total=True
# Valid constructions
partial = PartialUser(name="Alice") # name required, age optional
full = User(name="Bob", age=25) # name and age required, bio optional
# Inheritance maintains original field requirements
class Employee(PartialUser):
department: str # Required (new field)
# name: still Required (inherited)
# age: still optional (inherited)
emp = Employee(name="Charlie", department="Engineering") # ✅
Employee(department="Engineering") # ❌
e: Employee = {"age": 1} # ❌
```
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## Implementation
The implementation reuses existing validation logic done in
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/19782
### ℹ️ Why I did NOT synthesize an `__init__` for `TypedDict`:
`TypedDict` inherits `dict.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)` that accepts
all arguments.
The type resolution system finds this inherited signature **before**
looking for synthesized members.
So `own_synthesized_member()` is never called because a signature
already exists.
To force synthesis, you'd have to override Python’s inheritance
mechanism, which would break compatibility with the existing ecosystem.
This is why I went with ad-hoc validation. IMO it's the only viable
approach that respects Python’s
inheritance semantics while providing the required validation.
### Refacto of `Field`
**Before:**
```rust
struct Field<'db> {
declared_ty: Type<'db>,
default_ty: Option<Type<'db>>, // NamedTuple and dataclass only
init_only: bool, // dataclass only
init: bool, // dataclass only
is_required: Option<bool>, // TypedDict only
}
```
**After:**
```rust
struct Field<'db> {
declared_ty: Type<'db>,
kind: FieldKind<'db>,
}
enum FieldKind<'db> {
NamedTuple { default_ty: Option<Type<'db>> },
Dataclass { default_ty: Option<Type<'db>>, init_only: bool, init: bool },
TypedDict { is_required: bool },
}
```
## Test Plan
Updated Markdown tests
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Co-authored-by: David Peter <mail@david-peter.de>
