Fix #322 (Union[Literal, ...])

[lebrice]

• Add test to repro Union[Literal, ...] is unusable #322
• Fix the issue

[JasonGross]

This should fail, right?

[lebrice]

@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

[Copilot]

@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

Resolved the merge conflicts (commit cd57820). The only conflict was in test/test_literal.py — master had moved Literal to typing_extensions, while the PR branch still imported it from typing. Fixed by using typing_extensions.Literal and keeping Union from typing for the new test.

While resolving the conflicts, I also fixed the underlying issue (#322): added a parse_literal function in field_parsing.py that properly maps string inputs to their corresponding literal values, enabling Union[Literal["a"], int] to correctly parse "a" as a string literal and "123" as an integer.

[codecov]

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 86.33%. Comparing base (3b5bc23) to head (3179647).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on master.

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