feat: handle request.GET or request.POST being None + a few other improvements @W-18128971

[snacu]

Work Item: W-18078839

• Add a few docstring and inline comments to modified methods
• Improve boolean type handling with more valid values
• Improve error handling with detailed messages and logging
• Add explicit checks for None request and query_dict
• Improve field name handling with explicit checks
• add unit tests for RequstField.get_without_default method

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• Update CHANGELOG.md
• Update README.md (as needed)
• New dependencies were added to pyproject.toml
• pip install succeeds with a clean virtualenv
• There are new or modified tests that cover changes
• Test coverage is maintained or expanded

[lukka5]

we could maybe add a test with request with query_dict but without name or api_name

[snacu]

that would fail in a different way because the there's a meta class that has to fill in that name and in the tests it would need to be mocked

[lukka5]

we could also check for the presence of new log ev=dda, loc=coerce_value_to_type

[snacu]

I don't see much benefit from asserting the log line is there, also makes the logging updates difficult after (tests would need update too)

[snacu]

Thanks!

[snacu]

that would fail in a different way because the there's a meta class that has to fill in that name and in the tests it would need to be mocked

[snacu]

I don't see much benefit from asserting the log line is there, also makes the logging updates difficult after (tests would need update too)