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When deserializing a data structure with the load method, the unknown was not propagated to the loading of nested data structures. As result, if a unknown field was present into a nested data structure a ValidationError was raised even if the load methd was called with unknown=EXCLUDE. This commit ensures that this parameter is now propagated also to the loading of nested data structures.
fixes #1428

When deserializing a data structure with the load method, the *unknown* was not propagated to the loading of nested data structures. As result, if a unknown field was present into a nested data structure a ValidationError was raised even if the load methd was called with *unknown=EXCLUDE*. This commit ensures that this parameter is now propagated also to the loading of nested data structures.
fixes marshmallow-code#1428
@lmignon lmignon force-pushed the dev-fix-deserialize-unknown-in-nested branch from 3d94ded to e1acdd7 Compare November 2, 2019 11:11
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lmignon commented Nov 2, 2019

@lafrech @sloria What do you thing about this proposed fix? I tried to provide the required documentation to make this behavior explicit.

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Looks good to me, i have just one nit comment

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Thanks, LGTM

@sloria sloria requested a review from deckar01 November 26, 2019 14:53
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Nested.load() calls Schema.load() internally, so when an unknown argument is supplied to the Nested constructor, this PR causes all of the nested unknown options to be recursively overridden.

from marshmallow import fields, Schema, RAISE, INCLUDE, EXCLUDE


class C(Schema):
    foo = fields.Str()
    class Meta:
        unknown = EXCLUDE

class B(Schema):
    c = fields.Nested(C)

class A(Schema):
    b = fields.Nested(B, unknown=INCLUDE)
    class Meta:
        unknown = RAISE

schema = A()
print(schema.load({
    'b': {
        'extra': 'good',
        'c': {
            'foo': 'bar',
            'unexpected': 'bad'
        }
    }
}))

Current behavior (3.2.2):

{'b': {'c': {'foo': 'bar'}, 'extra': 'good'}}

Proposed behavior:

{'b': {'c': {'foo': 'bar', 'unexpected': 'bad'}, 'extra': 'good'}}

sirosen added a commit to sirosen/marshmallow that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2020
The changelog entry, including credit to prior related work, covers
the closed issues and describes how `propagate_unknown` is expected to
behave.

Inline documentation attempts to strike a balance between clarify and
brevity.

closes marshmallow-code#1428, marshmallow-code#1429, marshmallow-code#1490, marshmallow-code#1575
sirosen added a commit to sirosen/marshmallow that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2020
The changelog entry, including credit to prior related work, covers
the closed issues and describes how `propagate_unknown` is expected to
behave.

Inline documentation attempts to strike a balance between clarify and
brevity.

closes marshmallow-code#1428, marshmallow-code#1429, marshmallow-code#1490, marshmallow-code#1575
sirosen added a commit to sirosen/marshmallow that referenced this pull request Sep 4, 2020
The changelog entry, including credit to prior related work, covers
the closed issues and describes how `propagate_unknown` is expected to
behave.

Inline documentation attempts to strike a balance between clarify and
brevity.

closes marshmallow-code#1428, marshmallow-code#1429, marshmallow-code#1490, marshmallow-code#1575
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bhperry commented Aug 18, 2025

Any chance of this merging?

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unknown parameter passed to load method is not popagated to nested schema field.

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