Look into returns library for higher-kinded types

[cosmicBboy]

https://returns.readthedocs.io/

Use case: for the model.SchemaModel class, we want to be able to support higher kinded types in methods e.g. the validate method, such that it can return type-varying generics based on the type of the check_obj argument.

https://returns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/hkt.html

[ericfeunekes]

What about, eg, returning a Result from Validate? That would allow the user to do something with the Failure, like log the failed df for examination.

[cosmicBboy]

I'm guessing Success type would be a breaking change? i.e. I get a Success object instead of a DataFrame, right?

I'd hesitate to introduce this breaking change until perhaps version 1.* of pandera, or perhaps introduce a different method that implements this behavior.

[ericfeunekes]

Definitely a breaking change and likely not something you'd want as a default. Most people probably wouldn't be expecting it.

But it could be implemented either as a return_monad: bool argument in validate; or even easier like you said is a separate method that just wraps validate in a try ... except ... and returns a Result in either case. The Failure case could also return the df of failing values for the user to do something with.

I'm not super familiar with the source code so there may be a better way to implement, but that's off the top of my head.