build() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the build() function in _models.py from the anthropic-sdk-python codebase.

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Source Code

src/anthropic/_models.py lines 466–486

def build(
    base_model_cls: Callable[P, _BaseModelT],
    *args: P.args,
    **kwargs: P.kwargs,
) -> _BaseModelT:
    """Construct a BaseModel class without validation.

    This is useful for cases where you need to instantiate a `BaseModel`
    from an API response as this provides type-safe params which isn't supported
    by helpers like `construct_type()`.

    ```py
    build(MyModel, my_field_a="foo", my_field_b=123)
    ```
    """
    if args:
        raise TypeError(
            "Received positional arguments which are not supported; Keyword arguments must be used instead",
        )

    return cast(_BaseModelT, construct_type(type_=base_model_cls, value=kwargs))