From 191eed0bb981912712d4a5ccc9544749af7ab3f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 22quinn <33176974+22quinn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:35:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [BugFix] Fix lazy imports involving outlines_core (#27158)

Signed-off-by: 22quinn <33176974+22quinn@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 vllm/v1/structured_output/backend_outlines.py | 2 ++
 vllm/v1/structured_output/utils.py            | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vllm/v1/structured_output/backend_outlines.py b/vllm/v1/structured_output/backend_outlines.py
index 1e01788076d54..34916079f821a 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/structured_output/backend_outlines.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/structured_output/backend_outlines.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025-present the Outlines developers
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import ast
 import importlib
 import json
diff --git a/vllm/v1/structured_output/utils.py b/vllm/v1/structured_output/utils.py
index e20ad1a6ec312..ef9bae2367bed 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/structured_output/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/structured_output/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import hashlib
 import importlib.metadata
 import os