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Higher Kinded Types Example Refactored
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# Bug report
The typing inferred via higher-kinded types does not seem to be correct
## What's wrong
I've started to play around with the Higher-Kinded Types (I'd really love to be able to type even with type classes) that are provided in the library, following the blog post [here](https://dev.to/wemake-services/higher-kinded-types-in-python-51n8) (By the way...terrific blog!). One (seemingly basic) thing that I tried to do, was to turn the `apply_function` into a class method of `HasValue`, rather than a stand-alone function. However, I've then stumbled into a number of issues.
If one simply puts the function into the class, making it a method, you'd end up with the following conflict:
> The erased type of self "returns.primitives.hkt.KindN[_InstanceKind`-1, _ValueType`1, Any, Any]" is not a supertype of its class "test_mypy_working.HasValue[_ValueType`1]"
yes, right. The `HasValue` class does not inherit from `KindN`. Therefore, I have made `HasValue` extends the `KindSupports`, also avoiding to re-inherit this in the child classes `Bag` and `Box` .
```
class HasValue(SupportsKind1[_InstanceKind, _ValueType], Generic[_InstanceKind, _ValueType]):
@abc.abstractmethod
@property
def value(self) -> _ValueType:
"""Returns a value property."""
@abc.abstractmethod
def with_value(
self: _InstanceKind,
new_value: _NewValueType,
) -> Kind1[_InstanceKind, _NewValueType]:
"""Creates a new instance with a changed value."""
@kinded
def apply_function(
self: Kind1[_InstanceKind, _ValueType],
callback: Callable[[_ValueType], _NewValueType],
) -> Kind1[_InstanceKind, _NewValueType]:
new_value = callback(self.value)
return self.with_value(new_value)
@dataclasses.dataclass
class Box(HasValue["Box", _ValueType]):
value: _ValueType
length: int
width: int
height: int
def with_value(self, new_value: _NewValueType) -> "Box[_NewValueType]":
return Box(new_value, self.length, self.width, self.height)
@dataclasses.dataclass
class Bag(HasValue["Bag", _ValueType]):
value: _ValueType
brand: str
model: str
def with_value(self: "Bag", new_value: _NewValueType) -> "Bag[_NewValueType]":
return Bag(new_value, self.brand, self.model)
```
When doing this, however `mypy` complains with the following message:
> error: Incompatible return value type (got "KindN[_ValueType, _NewValueType, Any, Any]", expected "KindN[_InstanceKind, _NewValueType, Any, Any]")
which I can't quite understand. How does it get the `KindN[_ValueType, ...]` from the` self.with_value` method that returns `KindN[_InstanceKind, ...]`
Despite the error, if in the script I place the following lines, mypy nevertheless INDEED DOES the correct inference
```
box = Box(value=10, length=1, width=2, height=3)
reveal_type(box.apply_function(str))
Revealed type is "hkt.Box[builtins.str]"
```
## How is that should be
I suppose the error should not appear, unless I'm missing some points here. I'm still new to these features of this library and I'm still wrapping my head around it
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## System information
- `python` version: 3.7.6
- `returns` version: 0.19.0
- `mypy` version: 0.941
- `mypy-extensions` version: 0.4.3
- `hypothesis` version (if any):
- `pytest` version (if any):
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