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Chisel is a lightweight Python WSGI application framework built for creating well-documented, schema-validated JSON web APIs.

JSON APIs

Chisel provides the action decorator for easily implementing schema-validated JSON APIs.

import chisel

@chisel.action(spec='''
# Sum a list of numbers
action sum_numbers
    urls
        GET

    query
        # The list of numbers
        float[len > 0] numbers

    output
        # The sum of the numbers
        float sum
''')
def sum_numbers(ctx, req):
    return {'sum': sum(req['numbers'])}

application = chisel.Application()
application.add_request(sum_numbers)
application.request('GET', '/sum_numbers', query_string='numbers.0=1&numbers.1=2&numbers.2=4')

('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'application/json')], b'{"sum":7.0}')

Each action defines an action definition using Schema Markdown. The action callback is passed two arguments, a request Context and the schema-validated request input dictionary. The input request dictionary is created by combining the request's URL path parameters, query string parameters, and input JSON content parameters.

If there is a schema validation error the appropriate error code is automatically returned.

status, _, content_bytes = application.request('GET', '/sum_numbers')

'400 Bad Request'
b'{"error":"InvalidInput","message":"Required member \\"numbers\\" missing (query string)"}'

A chisel.Application is a standard WSGI application object - host it with any WSGI server. For example:

gunicorn module:application

API Documentation

You can add API documentation to your application by adding the Chisel documentation application requests from create_doc_requests.

application = chisel.Application()
application.add_requests(chisel.create_doc_requests())

By default the documentation application is hosted at "/doc/". An example of Chisel's documentation output is available.

Development

This package is developed using python-build. It was started using python-template as follows:

template-specialize python-template/template/ chisel/ -k package chisel -k name 'Craig A. Hobbs' -k email 'craigahobbs@gmail.com' -k github 'craigahobbs' -k nomain 1

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