Fix calling Validator.evolve for some downstream users.

The broken case here was subclassing a validator class, something that
isn't really a supported use of the Validator classes, but of course one
can't blame anyone too much since doing so didn't raise an error or emit
any warning.

In the next release subclassing will warn, and at some point afterwards
will become an explicit error. If you're a downstream user of this
library looking for a way to avoid whichever inheritance is currently
needed in your library feel free to reach out and I'll try to help.

Closes: #982

Author: Julian

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+v4.10.1
+-------
+
+* Fix Validator.evolve (and APIs like ``iter_errors`` which call it) for cases
+  where the validator class has been subclassed. Doing so wasn't intended to be
+  public API, but given it didn't warn or raise an error it's of course
+  understandable. The next release however will make it warn (and a future one
+  will make it error). If you need help migrating usage of inheriting from a
+  validator class feel free to open a discussion and I'll try to give some
+  guidance (#982).
+
 v4.10.0
 -------
 

jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py

@@ -1463,6 +1463,38 @@ def test_it_delegates_to_a_ref_resolver(self):
         with self.assertRaises(exceptions.ValidationError):
             validator.validate(None)
 
+    def test_evolve(self):
+        ref, schema = "someCoolRef", {"type": "integer"}
+        resolver = validators.RefResolver("", {}, store={ref: schema})
+
+        validator = self.Validator(schema, resolver=resolver)
+        new = validator.evolve(schema={"type": "string"})
+
+        expected = self.Validator({"type": "string"}, resolver=resolver)
+
+        self.assertEqual(new, expected)
+        self.assertNotEqual(new, validator)
+
+    def test_evolve_with_subclass(self):
+        """
+        Subclassing validators isn't supported public API, but some users have
+        done it, because we don't actually error entirely when it's done :/
+
+        We need to deprecate doing so first to help as many of these users
+        ensure they can move to supported APIs, but this test ensures that in
+        the interim, we haven't broken those users.
+        """
+
+        @attr.s
+        class OhNo(self.Validator):
+            foo = attr.ib(factory=lambda: [1, 2, 3])
+
+        validator = OhNo({})
+        self.assertEqual(validator.foo, [1, 2, 3])
+
+        new = validator.evolve(schema={"type": "integer"})
+        self.assertEqual(new.foo, [1, 2, 3])
+
     def test_it_delegates_to_a_legacy_ref_resolver(self):
         """
         Legacy RefResolvers support only the context manager form of

jsonschema/validators.py

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def check_schema(cls, schema):
 
         def evolve(self, **changes):
             schema = changes.setdefault("schema", self.schema)
-            NewValidator = validator_for(schema, default=Validator)
+            NewValidator = validator_for(schema, default=self.__class__)
 
             # Essentially reproduces attr.evolve, but may involve instantiating
             # a different class than this one.