[BUG] [Regression] Resolver is called with dict not object about django-ninja HOT 2 OPEN

I'm not sure if this is related, but rather than opening a new issue I will mention it here.

It appears that in 1.x of django-ninja, possibly because of what was mentioned above, the resolvers are called also on request input validation. Is this intended behaviour? I'm having trouble following this area in the documentation.

In my case, I can also determine if I'm dealing with input data or model serialization by checking if 'response_status' in context but this seems like a hack.

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Same here. I had a test that was running fine with version django-ninja 0.22.1 and pydantic 1.10.13 but is now failing with ninja 1.1.0 and pydantic 2.5.3.

I try to condense it into a short example with the following highlights:

• a model with m2m relations for categories and tags (tags implemented with django-taggit)
• the schema uses ModelSchema and includes the fields "categories" and "tags" but also has resolvers for both to output a list of complex objects for categories with ID and additional attributes, and a list of strings for the tags in case of GET requests.
• the PUT request uses the same model schema and this would work previously but now the payload for tags and categories is always an empty list.

    class Contact(Model): # Django Model
        categories = ManyToManyField(...)
        tags = DalTaggableManager()  # taggit
        # other fields omitted

    class ContactSchema(ModelSchema):
        # other fields omitted
        categories: List[CategorySchema] = []
        tags: List[str] = []
    
        model_config = ConfigDict(
            alias_generator=to_camel_case,
            populate_by_name=True
        )
    
        class Meta:
            model = Contact
            fields = [
                'categories',
                'tags',
            ]
    
        @staticmethod
        def resolve_categories(obj):
            LOGGER.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>< RESOLVE CATS %s', obj)
            return obj.categories_display()
    
        @staticmethod
        def resolve_tags(obj):
            LOGGER.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>< RESOLVE TAGS %s', obj)
            return list(obj.tags.values_list('name', flat=True))


    @contacts_router.put('/me/', response={200: ContactSchema, 401: str, 400: ContactErrorsSchema}, by_alias=True,
                         exclude_unset=True)
    def put_current_user(request, payload: ContactSchema):
        LOGGER.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>< request %s %s', request.body, payload)
        contact, unauth = get_contact_for_request(request)

The request contains the categories and tags. The resolvers get called and the obj at this point is the request body as python dictionary. The calls to obj.categories_display and obj.tags at this point result in None and as a consequence, the payload contains only empty lists of categories and tags.

If this is now the new behaviour, a hint in the documentation would probably be helpful.

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