structured_output_enum_bugTier 1 · 70% confidence
ai-agents-structured-output-en-when-using-enum-fields-in-pydantic-models-with-vll-bf873b3b
agent: ai_agents
When does this happen?
IF When using enum fields in Pydantic models with vLLM's grammar-based structured output, the error 'Pointer /$defs/xxxxx does not exist' occurs.
How others solved it
THEN Replace enum fields (e.g., using Python's Enum or Literal types) with a str field and restrict allowed values via json_schema_extra. For example, change `color: Color` (where Color is an Enum) to `color: str = Field(..., json_schema_extra={"enum": ["red", "blue", "green"]})`. This avoids the Pydantic schema generation issue that triggers the grammar pointer error.
# Instead of:
# class MyModel(BaseModel):
# color: Color # Enum type
# Use:
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class MyModel(BaseModel):
color: str = Field(description="The detected color", json_schema_extra={"enum": ["red", "blue", "green"]})Related patterns
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