reflect pydantic's type leniency

pydantic has lots of support for coercing types, however pydantic-pycharm-plugin current gives a message saying simply Expected type "x", got "y" instead:

Is there any possibility to change the error message to something like Field is of type "x", "y" may not be parsable to "x"? (or something cleaner, can’t think right now)

Perhaps it might even be possible to not show a warning in some obvious cases eg, int or str when the field is of type datetime? If that’s not possible, just making the message more friendly/correct might be simplest.

I can imagine that actually trying to parse the value and see if it’ll work (eg. '1' will work for int but 'x' would not) would involve duplicating the whole of pydantic’s logic in kotlin which is completely impossible. So I’m definitely not asking for that!

[samuelcolvin]

Friendly/more correct message is definitely the best first step.

[koxudaxi]

@samuelcolvin

That’s cool. Could you look at the equivalent mypy flag and use that?

Did you talk about init_typed and warn_untyped_fields_check_box ? If I can parse ini file in Java/Kotlin, then I can do it.

I think we should build a master copy of what types pydantic can accept as inputs to what types, e.g.: I see this information being useful in a number of scenarios:

I agree. It’s a great idea 😄

I’ll duplicate this to the pydantic repo when I’m back at my desk.

Thank you very much.