Add generic typing to Container.make() so type checkers resolve concrete types

[tmgbedu]

Problem

Container.make() was unannotated, so pyright/basedpyright inferred:

Type of "make" is "(name: Unknown, *arguments: Unknown) -> (Unknown | Any | None)"  [reportUnknownMemberType]

That fired on every app.make(...) call site, and every resolved service degraded to Unknown — no completion, no checking downstream.

Change (typing-only)

Container.make() now has two overloads:

@overload
def make(self, name: type[T], *arguments: Any) -> T: ...
@overload
def make(self, name: str, *arguments: Any) -> Any: ...

• make(SomeClass) → SomeClass
• make("config") / make("db") → Any — a string key carries no static type information, so callers keep annotating the binding themselves (config: Config = app.make("config")). This is what every existing call site already does, so there is no churn.

Also annotated _instance / set_instance() / instance(), so Container.instance().make(...) resolves as well (previously instance() inferred None from _instance = None).

On the | None in the old return type

Deliberately dropped. It came from self.swaps.get(name) — dict.get is Optional — inside a branch already guarded by name in self.swaps, so it was never reachable as None. make() raises MissingContainerBindingNotFound on a miss rather than returning None. Keeping Optional would have forced an assert or narrowing at every call site for a value that cannot be None; not keeping it costs nothing.

Application inherits make() from Container and does not override it, so it picks up the overloads automatically. No .pyi stub mirrors the make signature (Hash.make / Response.make_headers are unrelated facade methods), so no stubs needed updating.

No runtime logic changed — the diff is imports, a TypeVar, overloads, annotations and a docstring.

Verification

pyright, sample call site (c.make(MyService), c.make("config")), # pyright: strict:

	before	after
svc	Unknown | Any | None	MyService
cfg	Unknown | Any | None	Any
make	(name: Unknown, *arguments: Unknown) -> (Unknown | Any | None)	Overload[(name: type[T], *arguments: Any) -> T, (name: str, *arguments: Any) -> Any]
reportUnknownMemberType	3	0

Full-repo pyright (uv run pyright, project config): 652 errors → 622 errors, warnings unchanged at 113. 30 pre-existing errors fixed, none introduced.

Tests: uv run pytest --ignore=tests/masoniteorm/postgres --cov → 2192 passed, 7 skipped, coverage 84.40% (threshold 80).

New: tests/core/test_container_typing.py — assert_type() assertions for make(Class), unbound make(Class), make("str") and Container.instance(), each paired with a runtime assertion. Statically verified with uv run pyright tests/core/test_container_typing.py → 0 errors.

Downstream example/ and application/ call sites all use string keys, so none are affected.

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[tmgbedu]

Arbitration: PR #219 vs #221 — KEEP #219

Judged on correctness only. Evidence below; all commands re-run locally.

1. No undisclosed runtime change (cleared for both PRs)

git show origin/main:.../container/container.py — make() on main already ends with:

raise MissingContainerBindingNotFound("{0} key was not found in the container".format(name))

and dispatches on a membership check (if name in self.objects), not a None sentinel. Neither PR adds the raise. Non-Optional return is accurate and honest — no runtime change in either PR.

The | None in the original -> (Unknown | Any | None) diagnostic comes from return self.swaps.get(name) (dict.get() infers Any | None), not from a reachable missing-key path.

On the "bound None" nuance (bind("x", None) → make("x") returns None): real, but harmless. That path is only reachable through the str overload, which returns Any in both PRs, and Any already absorbs None. No Optional is warranted; adding it would force needless narrowing on every call site. Best documented, not typed.

2. Typing-only: confirmed

No edits to the bodies of make/bind/resolve or the on_bind/on_make/on_resolve hooks. _instance: ClassVar["Container | None"] = None is an annotation on an unchanged value.

3. Application.make + .pyi audit — both claims verified TRUE

• git grep -n "def make" -- src → only container/container.py:106. Application(Container, Generic[TConfig]) has no override; it inherits the overloads.
• Only .pyi files with make are Hash.pyi (Hash.make(string)) and Response.pyi (make_headers) — unrelated, neither mirrors Container.make.

Verified against a real call site on this branch:

Type of "app.make(Mailer)"   is "Mailer"
Type of "app.make("config")" is "Any"
0 errors, 0 warnings, 2 informations

The user's original app.make(...) squiggle is fixed. ✅

4. Tests genuinely fail-first ✅

Against unfixed main with only this PR's test file applied:

error: "assert_type" mismatch: expected "Mailer"    but received "Unknown | Any | None"  (:35)
error: "assert_type" mismatch: expected "Mailer"    but received "Unknown | Any | None"  (:42)
error: "assert_type" mismatch: expected "Any"       but received "Unknown | Any | None"  (:50)
error: "assert_type" mismatch: expected "Container" but received "Unknown"               (:63)
4 errors

Post-fix on this branch: 0 errors. Reproduces the reported symptom exactly and each assert_type is paired with a runtime assertion. This is the standard #219 clears and #221 does not.

5. Why #219 over #221

• Add generic typing to Container.make() so basedpyright resolves concrete types #221's own typing test is broken on its own branch. Its container fixture parameter is unannotated, so container.make(ServiceA) infers Unknown and the assertion still fails after the fix:
  t221.py:533 - error: "assert_type" mismatch: expected "ServiceA" but received "Unknown"
  It looks green only because assert_type is a runtime no-op and pyright skips the tests dir (see below).
• Add generic typing to Container.make() so type checkers resolve concrete types #219 also types _instance / set_instance() / instance(), fixing Container.instance() → Container (was Unknown). Still strictly typing-only.
• A separate test_container_typing.py keeps static-only assertions out of the behavioural suite.

6. make(str) -> Any is the right call

Real per-key typing would need a key→type registry that doesn't exist here. A Literal overload set would have to be hand-maintained and would break the open bind(name: str, ...) contract. Any is correct, and both PRs document it. Keep the docstring as written.

7. Callers relying on make() returning None: none

Repo + example/ + application/ swept. The only assertIsNone(... .make(...)) hits are ChannelFactory.make / DriverFactory.make — unrelated classes. The three app.make(...) sites (inertia-pingcrm-app, vite-app, agents) use the value directly.

8. My numbers on this branch

uv run pytest --ignore=tests/masoniteorm/postgres --cov --cov-report=term-missing
2192 passed, 7 skipped, 11 subtests passed in 101.31s
Total coverage: 84.40%  (threshold 80% reached)

uv run pyright src/fastapi_startkit/container/   →  0 errors, 0 warnings

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Follow-ups before merge (neither is a correctness blocker)

1. The typing tests are inert in CI. pyproject.toml [tool.pyright] sets exclude = ["**/tests"], which suppresses the tests dir even when the file is named explicitly on the command line. Canary proof — appending _x: int = "definitely a string" to tests/core/test_container_typing.py and running uv run pyright tests/core/test_container_typing.py reports 0 errors. So every assert_type here is currently unenforced. Either add tests/core/test_container_typing.py back via an include/strict entry, or add a CI step that type-checks it outside the project config. The file's own docstring advertises uv run pyright tests/core/test_container_typing.py, which today is a silent no-op — worth fixing so the advice is true.
2. Port Add generic typing to Container.make() so basedpyright resolves concrete types #221's Application.make test. Add generic typing to Container.make() so type checkers resolve concrete types #219 has no coverage asserting the overloads survive inheritance, and that is precisely the user-facing path that prompted this work. Add generic typing to Container.make() so basedpyright resolves concrete types #221's version is sound (its app is properly typed) and passes:

   app = Application(base_path=tmp_path, env="testing")
   assert_type(app.make(ServiceA), ServiceA)
   assert_type(app.make("service_a"), Any)

Not merging or closing — @pm owns that.

[tmgbedu]

Verification detail

Type checker: before / after

basedpyright is not installed in this repo. pyright is a dev dependency (pyright>=1.1.411) and is already configured in pyproject.toml under [tool.pyright], so I used it with a # pyright: strict pragma — that emits the same reportUnknownMemberType / reportUnknownVariableType rules the original report cites, and it reproduced the reported message verbatim.

Sample call site used for the measurement:

# pyright: strict
from fastapi_startkit.application import app
from fastapi_startkit.container import Container


class MyService:
    def greet(self) -> str:
        return "hi"


def use() -> None:
    c = Container()
    svc = c.make(MyService)
    reveal_type(svc)
    cfg = c.make("config")
    reveal_type(cfg)
    reveal_type(app().make)

	before	after
svc	Unknown | Any | None	MyService
cfg	Unknown | Any | None	Any
app().make	(name: Unknown, *arguments: Unknown) -> (Unknown | Any | None)	Overload[(name: type[T@make], *arguments: Any) -> T@make, (name: str, *arguments: Any) -> Any]
reportUnknownMemberType	3	0
reportUnknownVariableType	2	0

The "before" run reproduced the exact reported diagnostic:

Type of "make" is partially unknown
  Type of "make" is "(name: Unknown, *arguments: Unknown) -> (Unknown | Any | None)"   [reportUnknownMemberType]

Full-repo pyright

uv run pyright (project config, typeCheckingMode = "standard", include = ["src/fastapi_startkit"]):

	errors	warnings	informations
before	652	113	0
after	622	113	0

30 pre-existing errors fixed as a side effect, none introduced. The remaining 622 are pre-existing and unrelated to make().

Typing assertions

$ uv run pyright tests/core/test_container_typing.py
0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 informations

This is what actually validates the assert_type() calls in the new test — they are no-ops at runtime, so each one is paired with a runtime assertion as well.

pytest + coverage

$ uv run pytest --ignore=tests/masoniteorm/postgres --cov --cov-report=term-missing
...
TOTAL                     11884   1854    84%
Required test coverage of 80.0% reached. Total coverage: 84.40%
2192 passed, 7 skipped, 11 subtests passed in 98.82s (0:01:38)

metric	value
passed	2192
skipped	7
subtests passed	11
failed	0
coverage	84.40% (statements 11884, missed 1854)
fail_under	80

Container suite on its own:

$ uv run pytest tests/core/ -q
129 passed in 0.38s

Note: the task brief quoted fail_under = 40; the current value in pyproject.toml is 80. Either way the run is above threshold.

Lint

$ uv run ruff check src tests
All checks passed!
$ uv run ruff format --check src/fastapi_startkit/container/container.py tests/core/test_container_typing.py
2 files already formatted

Downstream call sites

All .make(...) call sites in example/ and application/ use string keys and are therefore unaffected:

example/inertia-pingcrm-app/providers/fastapi_provider.py:25:  self.app.make("inertia")
example/agents/app/agents/job_search_graph.py:141:            app().make("checkpointer")
example/vite-app/routes/web.py:11:                            app().make("templates")

Note on uv.lock

fastapi_startkit/uv.lock is stale on main — it records version = "0.51.0" while pyproject.toml says 0.56.0, so any uv run rewrites it. I reverted it out of this branch to keep the diff typing-only; it needs a separate lock-refresh commit.