Make component type insensitive (#42592)

* make component type insensitive

* fix test

Author: PratibhaShrivastav18

sdk/ml/azure-ai-ml/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 - Removed the dependencies - msrest and six
 
 ### Bugs Fixed
+- Fix for registry resource group passed to OnlineEndpointOperations when model is in registry in different resource group compared to workspace.
+- Set defaults for min_instances, max_instances, idle_time_before_scale_down in AmlCompute
+
+### Other Changes
+- v2 component types are now case insensitive
 
 ## 1.28.1 (2025-07-08)
 

sdk/ml/azure-ai-ml/azure/ai/ml/entities/_util.py

@@ -600,6 +600,10 @@ def get_type_from_spec(data: dict, *, valid_keys: Iterable[str]) -> str:
     """
     _type, _ = extract_label(data.get(CommonYamlFields.TYPE, None))
 
+    # Normalize type to lowercase for case-insensitive comparison for sdk v2 component types
+    if _type and any(_type.lower() == getattr(NodeType, attr) for attr in dir(NodeType)):
+        _type = _type.lower()
+
     # we should keep at least 1 place outside _internal to enable internal components
     # and this is the only place
     try_enable_internal_components()

sdk/ml/azure-ai-ml/tests/internal_utils/unittests/test_utils.py

@@ -4,17 +4,20 @@
 
 import pytest
 
+from azure.ai.ml._internal._schema.component import NodeType as InternalNodeType
 from azure.ai.ml._utils.utils import (
     _get_mfe_base_url_from_batch_endpoint,
     dict_eq,
     get_all_data_binding_expressions,
+    get_valid_dot_keys_with_wildcard,
     is_data_binding_expression,
     map_single_brackets_and_warn,
     write_to_shared_file,
-    get_valid_dot_keys_with_wildcard,
 )
+from azure.ai.ml.constants._component import NodeType
 from azure.ai.ml.entities import BatchEndpoint
-from azure.ai.ml.entities._util import convert_ordered_dict_to_dict
+from azure.ai.ml.entities._util import convert_ordered_dict_to_dict, get_type_from_spec
+from azure.ai.ml.exceptions import ValidationException
 
 
 @pytest.mark.unittest
@@ -120,3 +123,17 @@ def test_get_valid_dot_keys_with_wildcard(self):
             "deep.*.*",
             validate_func=lambda _root, _parts: _parts[1] == "l1_2",
         ) == ["deep.l1_2.l2"]
+
+    def test_get_type_from_spec_case_insensitive(self):
+        """Test that get_type_from_spec normalizes type to lowercase for case-insensitive validation."""
+        valid_keys = [NodeType.COMMAND, InternalNodeType.COMMAND]
+
+        test_cases = [
+            ({"type": "command"}, "command"),  # lowercase
+            ({"type": "Command"}, "command"),  # uppercase - should normalize to lowercase
+            ({"type": "CommandComponent"}, "CommandComponent"),  # remains unchanged as it's not in NodeType
+        ]
+
+        for data, expected in test_cases:
+            result = get_type_from_spec(data, valid_keys=valid_keys)
+            assert result == expected