fix(client): correctly parse binary response | stream

Author: stainless-app[bot]

src/lithic/_base_client.py

@@ -1086,7 +1086,14 @@ def _process_response(
 
         origin = get_origin(cast_to) or cast_to
 
-        if inspect.isclass(origin) and issubclass(origin, BaseAPIResponse):
+        if (
+            inspect.isclass(origin)
+            and issubclass(origin, BaseAPIResponse)
+            # we only want to actually return the custom BaseAPIResponse class if we're
+            # returning the raw response, or if we're not streaming SSE, as if we're streaming
+            # SSE then `cast_to` doesn't actively reflect the type we need to parse into
+            and (not stream or bool(response.request.headers.get(RAW_RESPONSE_HEADER)))
+        ):
             if not issubclass(origin, APIResponse):
                 raise TypeError(f"API Response types must subclass {APIResponse}; Received {origin}")
 
@@ -1603,7 +1610,14 @@ async def _process_response(
 
         origin = get_origin(cast_to) or cast_to
 
-        if inspect.isclass(origin) and issubclass(origin, BaseAPIResponse):
+        if (
+            inspect.isclass(origin)
+            and issubclass(origin, BaseAPIResponse)
+            # we only want to actually return the custom BaseAPIResponse class if we're
+            # returning the raw response, or if we're not streaming SSE, as if we're streaming
+            # SSE then `cast_to` doesn't actively reflect the type we need to parse into
+            and (not stream or bool(response.request.headers.get(RAW_RESPONSE_HEADER)))
+        ):
             if not issubclass(origin, AsyncAPIResponse):
                 raise TypeError(f"API Response types must subclass {AsyncAPIResponse}; Received {origin}")