Support python Literal types when defining JSON or FunctionCalling schemas.

[MarkDaoust]

Description of the feature request:

String literal types should create Enums in the generated schema.

What problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

No response

Any other information you'd like to share?

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[yan-hic]

@MarkDaoust you mention "generated" - is there a private method that generates protos.Schema somewhere ?

I was about to write a feature request for a from_object() like in node.js to convert a pydantic object to Schema.

[MarkDaoust]

Hi @yan-hic,

The code is here:

generative-ai-python/google/generativeai/types/content_types.py

Lines 337 to 342 in 8f77cc6

	def _schema_for_class(cls: TypedDict) -> dict[str, Any]:
	schema = _build_schema("dummy", {"dummy": (cls, pydantic.Field())})
	return schema["properties"]["dummy"]
	def _schema_for_function(

It uses pydantic to do the conversion already, but I haven't tested actually passing pydantic objects.
Similarly, I haven't tried this with types like Literal['a', 'b'].