Allow disabling CoreSchema validation for faster startup times

pydantic/_internal/_core_utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import os
 from collections import defaultdict
 from typing import (
     Any,
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
 )
 
 from pydantic_core import CoreSchema, core_schema
+from pydantic_core import validate_core_schema as _validate_core_schema
 from typing_extensions import TypeAliasType, TypedDict, TypeGuard, get_args
 
 from . import _repr
@@ -621,3 +623,9 @@ def strip_metadata(s: CoreSchema, recurse: Recurse) -> CoreSchema:
         schema = walk_core_schema(schema, strip_metadata)
 
     return print(schema)
+
+
+def validate_core_schema(schema: CoreSchema) -> CoreSchema:
+    if 'PYDANTIC_SKIP_VALIDATING_CORE_SCHEMAS' in os.environ:
+        return schema
+    return _validate_core_schema(schema)

pydantic/_internal/_dataclasses.py

@@ -15,15 +15,14 @@
     SchemaSerializer,
     SchemaValidator,
     core_schema,
-    validate_core_schema,
 )
 from typing_extensions import TypeGuard
 
 from ..errors import PydanticUndefinedAnnotation
 from ..fields import FieldInfo
 from ..warnings import PydanticDeprecatedSince20
 from . import _config, _decorators, _discriminated_union, _typing_extra
-from ._core_utils import collect_invalid_schemas, simplify_schema_references
+from ._core_utils import collect_invalid_schemas, simplify_schema_references, validate_core_schema
 from ._fields import collect_dataclass_fields
 from ._generate_schema import GenerateSchema
 from ._generics import get_standard_typevars_map

pydantic/_internal/_model_construction.py

@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@
 from types import FunctionType
 from typing import Any, Callable, Generic, Mapping
 
-from pydantic_core import PydanticUndefined, SchemaSerializer, SchemaValidator, validate_core_schema
+from pydantic_core import PydanticUndefined, SchemaSerializer, SchemaValidator
 from typing_extensions import dataclass_transform, deprecated
 
 from ..errors import PydanticUndefinedAnnotation, PydanticUserError
 from ..fields import Field, FieldInfo, ModelPrivateAttr, PrivateAttr
 from ..warnings import PydanticDeprecatedSince20
 from ._config import ConfigWrapper
-from ._core_utils import collect_invalid_schemas, simplify_schema_references
+from ._core_utils import collect_invalid_schemas, simplify_schema_references, validate_core_schema
 from ._decorators import (
     ComputedFieldInfo,
     DecoratorInfos,

pydantic/_internal/_validate_call.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from ..config import ConfigDict
 from . import _discriminated_union, _generate_schema, _typing_extra
 from ._config import ConfigWrapper
-from ._core_utils import simplify_schema_references
+from ._core_utils import simplify_schema_references, validate_core_schema
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def __init__(self, function: Callable[..., Any], config: ConfigDict | None, vali
             schema = _discriminated_union.apply_discriminators(simplify_schema_references(schema))
             self.__return_pydantic_core_schema__ = schema
             core_config = config_wrapper.core_config(self)
-            schema = pydantic_core.validate_core_schema(schema)
+            schema = validate_core_schema(schema)
             validator = pydantic_core.SchemaValidator(schema, core_config)
             if inspect.iscoroutinefunction(self.raw_function):
 

pydantic/type_adapter.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from dataclasses import is_dataclass
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, Generic, Iterable, Set, TypeVar, Union, overload
 
-from pydantic_core import CoreSchema, SchemaSerializer, SchemaValidator, Some, validate_core_schema
+from pydantic_core import CoreSchema, SchemaSerializer, SchemaValidator, Some
 from typing_extensions import Literal, is_typeddict
 
 from pydantic.errors import PydanticUserError
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def __init__(self, type: Any, *, config: ConfigDict | None = None, _parent_depth
 
         core_schema = _discriminated_union.apply_discriminators(_core_utils.simplify_schema_references(core_schema))
 
-        core_schema = validate_core_schema(core_schema)
+        core_schema = _core_utils.validate_core_schema(core_schema)
 
         core_config = config_wrapper.core_config(None)
         validator: SchemaValidator