Number fromhex()

[dpatel20]

In the documentation forFields.Number it mentions fromhex(). It is not clear to me how I can trigger that.

I would like to convert a hex-like string (e.g. 0x7AB) to a number and check that a non-hex-like string has not been given.

Essentially, is there a built-in way to deserialise/validate a hex-like string or would I need to use Fields.Method?

[deckar01]

It looks like the doc generator is treating num_type as a type alias of float and is errantly injecting documentation for that builtin type. We should probably disable that behavior.

There is currently not an argument on the Float field that would call float.fromhex() during deserialization. I would recommend making a custom field. https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/custom_fields.html#creating-a-field-class

[dpatel20]

Thanks, I thought I was missing something!
You can close this issue or leave it open until the docs issue is resolved.

[deckar01]

I tracked this down to autodocsumm and opened Chilipp/autodocsumm#69. autodocsumm was introduced fairly recently in #1587. We may want to consider removing it. It adds a lot of duplicate information to the documentation.