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Literal annotation does not render type to json-schema #8905

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When defining a property as Literal, eg:

from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing import Literal


class Foo(BaseModel):
    bar: Literal["Bar"] = 'Bar'
    baz: Literal[None] = None

The output json-schema model loses the typing of the variable used for the literal. I.e.:

{
  "properties": {
    "bar": {
      "const": "Bar",
      "default": "Bar",
      "title": "Bar"
    },
    "baz": {
      "const": null,
      "default": null,
      "title": "Baz"
    }
  },
  "title": "Foo",
  "type": "object"
}

It would be nice to infer this type and correctly add it to the schema. This could be achieved by simply extending the literal_schema method

def literal_schema(self, schema: core_schema.LiteralSchema) -> JsonSchemaValue:

with:

def literal_schema(self, schema: core_schema.LiteralSchema) -> JsonSchemaValue:
        """Generates a JSON schema that matches a literal value.

        Args:
            schema: The core schema.

        Returns:
            The generated JSON schema.
        """
        expected = [v.value if isinstance(v, Enum) else v for v in schema["expected"]]
        # jsonify the expected values
        expected = [to_jsonable_python(v) for v in expected]

        types = {type(e) for e in expected}

        if len(expected) == 1:
            if isinstance(expected[0], str):
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "string"}
            elif isinstance(expected[0], int):
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "integer"}
            elif isinstance(expected[0], float):
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "number"}
            elif isinstance(expected[0], bool):
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "boolean"}
            elif isinstance(expected[0], list):
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "array"}
            elif expected[0] is None:
                return {"const": expected[0], "type": "null"}
            else:
                return {"const": expected[0]}

        if types == {str}:
            return {"enum": expected, "type": "string"}
        elif types == {int}:
            return {"enum": expected, "type": "integer"}
        elif types == {float}:
            return {"enum": expected, "type": "number"}
        elif types == {bool}:
            return {"enum": expected, "type": "boolean"}
        elif types == {list}:
            return {"enum": expected, "type": "array"}
        # there is not None case because if it's mixed it hits the final `else`
        # if it's a single Literal[None] then it becomes a `const` schema above
        else:
            return {"enum": expected}

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Python, Pydantic & OS Version

pydantic version: 2.5.3
        pydantic-core version: 2.14.6
          pydantic-core build: profile=release pgo=true
                 install path: <...>\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pydantic
               python version: 3.11.7 (tags/v3.11.7:fa7a6f2, Dec  4 2023, 19:24:49) [MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)]     
                     platform: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
             related packages: typing_extensions-4.9.0

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