Created by: spacether
Allow schema instances to be passed in and pass additional schema validations
In polymorphic use cases, an instance may be passed in which is of type Dog but in the schema that we are deserializing, the field is of type Animal. As long as the dog payload can validate as an Animal also, that should be permitted.
This PR updates cast_to_allowed_values so that when a schema instance is ingested, the instance is converted back to a primitive payload (Decimal/str/NoneClass/BoolClass, NOT a Schema instance). With that primitive payload, all validations can be run, and the new DynamicSchema class can be manufactured containing all passed validations and the payload can be instantiated as that new class. So in the output, the Dog instance will now be of type Dog AND Animal.
When Schema instances are ingested, the code should not have to re-run validation on already validated Schema classes for a given payload. So that information is persisted in ValidationMetadata and validating a schema class is skipped if it was validated earlier.
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