Rework the PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL environment variable and doc…

…ument it

Refs pydantic#1118 (comment)

python/pydantic_core/_pydantic_core.pyi

@@ -787,6 +787,18 @@ class ValidationError(ValueError):
             a JSON string.
         """
 
+    def __repr__(self) -> str:
+        """
+        A string representation of the validation error.
+
+        Whether or not documentation URLs are included in the repr is controlled by the
+        environment variable `PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL` being set to `1` or
+        `true`; by default, URLs are shown.
+
+        Due to implementation details, this environment variable can only be set once,
+        before the first validation error is created.
+        """
+
 @final
 class PydanticCustomError(ValueError):
     def __new__(

src/errors/validation_exception.rs

@@ -194,8 +194,16 @@ impl ValidationError {
 static URL_ENV_VAR: GILOnceCell<bool> = GILOnceCell::new();
 
 fn _get_include_url_env() -> bool {
-    match std::env::var("PYDANTIC_ERRORS_OMIT_URL") {
-        Ok(val) => val.is_empty(),
+    if std::env::var_os("PYDANTIC_ERRORS_OMIT_URL").is_some() {
+        // This is ugly (and is interposed weirdly into a printed traceback), but
+        // there probably isn't a much better way to surface a deprecation warning
+        // from so deep in the code. Hopefully there hadn't been too many users
+        // using the undocumented environment variable who will need to suffer
+        // the ugliness, and when they do, they'll act accordingly.
+        eprintln!("_pydantic_core: PYDANTIC_ERRORS_OMIT_URL is deprecated, use PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL instead");
+    }
+    match std::env::var("PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL") {
+        Ok(val) => val == "1" || val.to_lowercase() == "true",
         Err(_) => true,
     }
 }

tests/test_errors.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import enum
+import os
 import re
+import subprocess
 import sys
 from decimal import Decimal
 from typing import Any, Optional
@@ -1074,3 +1076,34 @@ def test_hide_input_in_json() -> None:
 
     for error in exc_info.value.errors(include_input=False):
         assert 'input' not in error
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ('include_url_value', 'expected_to_have_url'),
+    [
+        (None, True),
+        ('1', True),
+        ('True', True),
+        ('no', False),
+        ('0', False),
+    ],
+)
+def test_include_errors_envvar(include_url_value, expected_to_have_url) -> None:
+    # Since `PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL` can only be set
+    # before a single import of `pydantic` we need to
+    # test this in a separate process.
+    code = "import pydantic_core; pydantic_core.SchemaValidator({'type': 'int'}).validate_python('ooo')"
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    if include_url_value is not None:
+        env['PYDANTIC_ERRORS_INCLUDE_URL'] = include_url_value
+    env['PYDANTIC_ERRORS_OMIT_URL'] = 'foo'  # this is ignored but should show a deprecation warning
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, '-c', code],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+        encoding='utf-8',
+        env=env,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 1
+    assert 'PYDANTIC_ERRORS_OMIT_URL is deprecated' in result.stdout
+    assert ('https://errors.pydantic.dev' in result.stdout) == expected_to_have_url