APIModel

Advanced models for non-standard modern JSON APIs.

Documentation: https://apimodel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Source Code: https://github.com/thesadru/apimodel

Advanced models for non-standard modern JSON APIs. Supports extensive conversion and validation with several tools to help speed up development. Works with both synchronous and asynchronous models seamlessly. Fully tested and type-hinted.

Key Features

• Seamless data parsing through annotations.
• Supports extensive conversion and validation.
• Automatic code generation from json to speed up development.
• Inspired by pydantic to ensure familiarity.
• Localization support.
• Fully tested and type-hinted.
• No requirements.

Example

You can see more examples in the docs.

import typing

import datetime

import apimodel

class User(apimodel.APIModel):
    id: int
    username: str
    profile: str

    # UNIX or ISO parsing
    created_at: datetime.datetime

    @apimodel.validator()
    def _complete_profile_url(self, profile: str) -> str:
        """Take the raw profile ID and turn it into a full url"""
        return f"https://example.com/assets/profile/{profile}.png"

# inheritance
class Attendee(User):
    status: typing.Literal["attending", "interested", "absent"] | None = None

    @apimodel.root_validator()
    def _parse_status(self, values: dict[str, typing.Any]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]:
        """Take the entire JSON and update it accordingly"""
        # made for non-standard APIs
        if "attending" in values:
            values["status"] = "attending" if values["attending"] else "absent"
        elif "interested" in values:
            values["status"] = "interested" if values["interested"] else "absent"

        # excess values get thrown away
        return values

class Event(apimodel.APIModel):
    # allow easily renaming fields
    time: datetime.datetime = apimodel.Field(alias="happening_at")
    # clean nested models
    attendees: list[User]