RESTModels 1.0.0

API client by resource models for RESTful API over JSON

About

Simple sync/async client for REST API over JSON

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/RESTModels/

Usage

• install package

pip install RESTModels

• Create models

from RESTModels import ResourceModel, SyncClient, get, post


class Model(ResourceModel):
    @get("/todos/{count}")
    def get_todos(self, count: int) -> list[str]:
        ...

    @post("/todo", body=("todo",))
    def make_todo(self, todo: str) -> None:
        ...

• Create instance and use it

client = SyncClient("http://localhost:8000")
model = Model(client)
print(model.make_todo("Info"))
print(model.get_todos(1))

More usage

Custom type parsers

Create any object that implement protocol:

class TypeParserProtocol(Protocol):
    def __call__(
            self,
            value: Any,
            alias: GenericAlias,
            alias_parser: "TypeAliasParser",
    ) -> Any:

        raise NotImplementedError

And register it as type parser for TypeAliasParser:

from RESTModels import register_general_type_parser


@register_general_type_parser  # For all TypeAliasParser objects
def str_alias_parser(value: Any, alias: GenericAlias, alias_parser: TypeAliasParser) -> str:
    return str(value)

• value: response body as json.loads(request.body)
• alias: GenericAlias that describes expected result type
• alias_parser: TypeAliasParser object that called your type parser. Use it for parse nested types as showed lower.

You can parse generic types like that:

@TypeAliasParser.register_general_type_parser
def list_alias_parser(value: Any, alias: GenericAlias, alias_parser: TypeAliasParser) -> list[Any]:
    if hasattr(alias, "__args__"):
        origin_type_alias = alias.__args__[0]
        return [alias_parser(elem, origin_type_alias) for elem in value]

    return list(value)

If your return type is generic, annotate it like Generic[Any] for static type checkers, as showed above

Type of value that type parser returns determined by return type annotation

If you register more than one parser for one type only last will be used