#4403 [BUG] Incorrect get_literal_type() on TypeTransformer results in silent cache misses Issue created by JoeKellyRVA ### Describe the bug Slack thread where I provided a bit of context on this issue, though in digging in I found the root cause of my issue: https://flyte-org.slack.com/archives/CP2HDHKE1/p1699461676401929 I created a

TypeTransformer

for a class (

ParseableDocument

) so that I could manually set its hash function (instead of relying on the default

dataclass

hash). In doing so, I observed that my task which returns `ParseableDocument`s was always running (i.e., always had a cache miss) despite its inputs not changing. In testing this out I discovered that my issue was an incorrect

get_literal_type()

function on my

TypeTransformer

. After fixing that, caching works properly. Code included below can be run multiple times with the same inputs, and will rerun

download_document()

every time despite saying it is writing to the cache. ### Expected behavior Should provide a warning or error stating that

get_literal_type()

output does not match the actual

Literal

returned, or otherwise note that cache could not be properly written to. ### Additional context to reproduce

import datetime

from flytekit import Secret, current_context, task, workflow, map_task
from flytekit.types.file import FlyteFile
from flytekit.extend import TypeTransformer, TypeEngine
from flytekit.core.context_manager import FlyteContext
from flytekit.models.types import LiteralType, SimpleType
from flytekit.models.literals import Literal, LiteralMap, Primitive, Scalar
from flytekit.types.file.file import FlyteFilePathTransformer
from typing import Type

from dataclasses import dataclass
from dataclasses_json import DataClassJsonMixin, dataclass_json


## Define DownloadableDocument with @dataclass
@dataclass_json
@dataclass
class DownloadableDocument(DataClassJsonMixin):
    document_id: int
    url: str

    def __init__(self, document_id: int, url: str):
        self.document_id = document_id
        self.url = url


## Define ParseableDocument without @dataclass, set up a Transformer
## so we can manually modify how the hash is computed (though we are
## not doing so in this example)
class ParseableDocument:
    document_id: int
    url: str
    file: FlyteFile

    def __init__(self, document_id: int, url: str, file: FlyteFile):
        self.document_id = document_id
        self.url = url
        self.file = file


class ParseableDocumentTransformer(TypeTransformer[ParseableDocument]):  # type: ignore
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super(ParseableDocumentTransformer, self).__init__(
            name="parseable-document-transform", t=ParseableDocument
        )

    def get_literal_type(self, t: Type[ParseableDocument]) -> LiteralType:
        # Correct return value commented out to demonstrate strange caching behavior
        # variants: list[LiteralType] = [
        #     LiteralType(simple=SimpleType.STRING),
        #     FlyteFilePathTransformer().get_literal_type(os.PathLike)
        # ]
        # return LiteralType(map_value_type=LiteralType(union_type=UnionType(variants=variants)))
        return LiteralType(map_value_type=LiteralType(simple=SimpleType.STRING))

    def to_literal(
        self,
        ctx: FlyteContext,
        python_val: ParseableDocument,
        python_type: Type[ParseableDocument],
        expected: LiteralType,
    ) -> Literal:
        """
        This method is used to convert from the given python type object ``ParseableDocument`` to the Literal representation.
        """
        lm = LiteralMap(
            {
                "document_id": Literal(
                    scalar=Scalar(
                        primitive=Primitive(string_value=str(python_val.document_id))
                    )
                ),
                "url": Literal(
                    scalar=Scalar(primitive=Primitive(string_value=python_val.url))
                ),
                "file": FlyteFilePathTransformer().to_literal(
                    ctx, python_val.file, FlyteFile, expected
                ),
            }
        )

        return Literal(map=lm)

    def to_python_value(
        self, ctx: FlyteContext, lv: Literal, expected_python_type: Type[ParseableDocument]
    ) -> ParseableDocument:
        """
        In this method, we want to be able to re-hydrate the custom object from Flyte Literal value.
        """
        doc = ParseableDocument(
            document_id=int(lv.map.literals["document_id"].scalar.primitive.value),
            url=lv.map.literals["url"].scalar.primitive.value,
            file=FlyteFilePathTransformer().to_python_value(
                ctx, lv.map.literals["file"], FlyteFile
            ),
        )
        return doc


TypeEngine.register(ParseableDocumentTransformer())


@workflow
def cache_bug_example_transformer_minimal(
    kickoff_time: datetime.datetime,
    documents_to_create: int,
) -> list[ParseableDocument]:
    documents: list[DownloadableDocument] = get_documents_to_download(documents_to_create=documents_to_create)
    parseable_documents: list[ParseableDocument] = map_task(download_document)(document=documents)
    return parseable_documents


@task
def get_documents_to_download(documents_to_create: int) -> list[DownloadableDocument]:
    assert documents_to_create < 100
    docs: list[DownloadableDocument] = []
    for i in range(documents_to_create):
        docs.append(DownloadableDocument(i, "dummy/location"))

    return docs


@task(
    cache=True,
    cache_version="1.0",
)
def download_document(document: DownloadableDocument) -> ParseableDocument:
    print("Running download for document with id {}".format(document.document_id))
    parseable_document = ParseableDocument(document.document_id, document.url, FlyteFile("<http://www.google.com>"))
    return parseable_document

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