Union | optional return types supported #1703
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TL;DR
Union types iterate through all variants to find the right fit. The incorrect fit should raise an error to prevent the wrong cast.
Prior to the PR certain type transfomers (like None Type), tranform without considering if the python object is acceptable or matches the type. In the case of protobuf supported types like int, string, float etc, doing an implicit conversion will raise a runtime error, but for transformers like pickle or none type, this is leads to incorrect behavior.
This is because,
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This should fix the following
fixes flyteorg/flyte#3319