Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In most cases, I prefer to use Enums, because it's easier to inspect the enum values than inspecting the literals, as far as I know. So, I usually generate the code using enums. However, for a specific field of a model, I think I need to use a Literal, because this generated class is supposed to be the base class of other classes, which I may manually define, and inheritance doesn't work with enums, as far as I know.
To be concrete, let's say I have a generated class like this
class ALanguage(Enum):
EN = "en"
FR = "fr"
ES = "es"
...
class A
language: ALanguage
...
Now, let's say I define
class BLanguage(Enum):
EN = "en"
class B(A)
language: BLanguage
...
I think this would be wrong inheritance because BLanguage
doesn't inherit from ALanguage
and even if I changed the code so that BLanguage(ALanguage)
, I think it's not allowed to redefine the enum options in enum subclasses. I want to restrict the languages in B
, and ALanguage
should be as general as possible, i.e. contain all possible languages, but I don't think this is possible with Enums because I don't think I can restrict the languages in BLanguage
. So, in this specific case, I think Literal would be better, although I am also not sure how inheritance would work with literals, but I think it's allowed to restrict the possible values of the literal in subclasses.
Describe the solution you'd like
A way to specify that we want a specific field of a specific class to use literals instead of enums. For example, using a command-line parameter.
Describe alternatives you've considered
The current alternative is just to manually edit A
after it's been generated, but this a pain
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