expect a list of prototypes if checking prototype

Author: isabelizimm

vetiver/handlers/base.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from typing import List
 from functools import singledispatch
 from contextlib import suppress
 import pandas as pd
@@ -191,7 +190,7 @@ def _prepare_data(pred_data) -> pd.DataFrame:
 
 
 @_prepare_data.register(pydantic.BaseModel)
-@_prepare_data.register(List)
+@_prepare_data.register(list)
 def _basemodel_list_data(pred_data):
 
     return pd.DataFrame([dict(s) for s in pred_data])

vetiver/server.py

@@ -255,9 +255,7 @@ def predict(endpoint, data: Union[dict, pd.DataFrame, pd.Series], **kw) -> pd.Da
     if isinstance(data, pd.DataFrame):
         response = requester.post(endpoint, data=data.to_json(orient="records"), **kw)
     elif isinstance(data, pd.Series):
-        response = requester.post(endpoint, data=data.to_json(), **kw)
-    elif isinstance(data, list):
-        response = requester.post(endpoint, json=data, **kw)
+        response = requester.post(endpoint, json=[data.to_dict()], **kw)
     elif isinstance(data, dict):
         response = requester.post(endpoint, json=[data], **kw)
     else: