the return type of pybliometrics.scopus.AbstractRetrieval.funding_text()

[Zhouzhou-cloud]

pybliometrics version:
pybliometrics | 4.4.2.dev1+g34fbe512d |  

Code to reproduce the bug:

import pybliometrics
pybliometrics.init()
ab = pybliometrics.scopus.AbstractRetrieval("2-s2.0-105002632983", view="FULL", refresh=30)
print(ab.funding_text)

Expected behavior:
it seems return list[dict] | str. but the defination is str | None:

@property
def funding_text(self) -> str | None:
    """The raw text from which Scopus derives funding information."""
    path = ['item', 'xocs:meta', 'xocs:funding-list', 'xocs:funding-text']
    return chained_get(self._json, path)

it maybe beacuse the len(funding_text)==2, when 1 is ok.

[Michael-E-Rose]

For me this works. Can you try upgrading please, @Zhouzhou-cloud ?

>>> import pybliometrics
>>> pybliometrics.init()
>>> ab = pybliometrics.scopus.AbstractRetrieval("2-s2.0-105002632983", view="FULL", refresh=30)
>>> print(ab.funding_text)
[{'$': 'This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 32202081] and Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX23_2491).'}, {'$': 'Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 32021005, Jian Chen, Jiangsu Basic Research Center for Synthetic Biology, BK20233003, Guocheng Du, National First-class Discipline Program of Light Industry Technology and Engineering, LITE2018-08, Jianghua Li, Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province, KYCX23_2491, Yuan Qian.'}]
>>> pybliometrics.__version__
'4.5.dev1+gc16816078'

[Zhouzhou-cloud]

i mean you can get the value ,but the value type not what you want. when the len(funding_text)==1, you indeed get str, but when the len(funding_text)==2, you indeed get list[str]. the return type of "def funding_text(self) -> str | None:" is str | None. em... its not a bug, but it maybe a small mistake.

[Michael-E-Rose]

I still don't get it.

Do you expect a different return value, or do you think the type hints are wrong?