At the moment we have multiple ways of using pydantic and tagged unions:
scanspec using pydantic dataclasses and a decorator to make a tagged union of subclasses, it requires positional args
FastCS using plain dataclasses and a pydantic BaseModel creation function to do serialization and deserialization
pvi uses an explicitly created union of BaseModels
ibek uses automatically created Entity BaseModels from EntityModel instances
blueapi does something with BaseModels too, but I can't remember what
With the advent of pydantic v3, now would be a good time to look at investigating a common approach for all these usecases. Standardising on BaseModel instances would probably give us the most tool support for things like documenting models in sphinx, FastAPI and GraphQL support, and downstream serialization
@GDYendell @gilesknap @DiamondJoseph @tpoliaw @abbiemery FYI
@hyperrealist I'm hoping you'll take this on at some point in the new year