Thanks @jdkent, but the tests are still failing with your fix.

Note that we do have tests for relative refs, so not sure why this is failing. If there is an issue, I assume it is in the ref resolving, and we should fix it there.

thanks for pointing towards an existing test, for a more minimal example, try cloning the specification in the test:

def test_relative_refs(relative_refs, spec):
    spec_path = relative_refs / spec
    specification = Specification.load(spec_path)
    assert "$ref" not in specification.raw
    # clone specification
    specification_clone = specification.clone()
    assert "$ref" not in specification_clone.raw

The clone step will fail since base_uri is no longer set and clone is being applied to the "raw spec" before dereferencing is done instead of being applied to the "loaded spec" where dereferencing is already done.

I could see a solution where base_uri is an optional argument passed with clone, or some reversion of this pull request (#1830), but I do not know what problem that pull request was specifically fixing.

if I change the clone function back to:

def clone(self):
        return type(self)(copy.deepcopy(self._spec))

and run this test from test_swagger_ui.py:

def test_simple(swagger_ui_app):
    app_client = swagger_ui_app.test_client()
    response = app_client.get("/v1.0/spec.json")
    assert response.status_code == 200

the tests still pass, so I'm unsure what the minimal example that makes deepcopying self._spec not viable in #1829, but deepcopying self._raw_spec fixes.

coverage: 94.147%. remained the same
when pulling 185c88c on jdkent:fix/clone
into a930303 on spec-first:main.

This seems related to my issue. Unsure. #1909