[Bug]: Intellisense Not Working

[mahyarmirrashed]

I am using dataclasses-json in my project. I am using the following sample code:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from dataclasses_json import dataclass_json


@dataclass_json
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Minion:
  name: str


minion = Minion("very evil minion")
minion.to_json()

However, the .to_json() method is not in VSCode's intellisense. I cannot seem to understand why. Some of the fields provided by dataclass decorator are there, however. Can anybody replicate?

[rpmcginty]

It's written in the README that there is better support when subclassing DataClassJsonMixin over using the decorator.

from dataclasses import dataclass
from dataclasses_json import DataClassJsonMixin

@dataclass
class Person(DataClassJsonMixin):
    name: str

lidatong = Person('lidatong')

[PayemSaba]

Hey @rpmcginty I found a really nice way around this: change

dataclasses-json/dataclasses_json/api.py

Line 127 in 39b4c2f

def _process_class(cls, letter_case, undefined):

to

def _process_class(cls, letter_case, undefined) -> Type[DataClassJsonMixin]:

When I made this change locally, pycharm immediately recognized all the methods. I imagine VSCode will benefit similarly.
I'd open a PR myself but you seem to know your way around this repo :-)

[mahyarmirrashed]

@PayemSaba , I say go for it and create a PR if you can get it working. I can help if you'd like.

[george-zubrienko]

Reopening this issue as #411 has been reverted and it seems we don't have a good solution right now with the current API