diskdantic 0.1.0

diskdantic

Instead of having an ORM on top of a database, why not have a collection on top of a folder?

Disk-backed collections powered by Pydantic models. This is pretty much the whole API:

from datetime import date
from pydantic import BaseModel
from diskdantic import Collection


class BlogPost(BaseModel):
    title: str
    date: date
    tags: list[str]
    draft: bool = False
    content: str


posts = Collection(
    BlogPost,
    path="./blog/posts",
    format="markdown",    # required when the folder is empty
    body_field="content", # required when format is markdown (for the body)
)

recent = posts.filter(lambda post: not post.draft).order_by("-date").head(3)
for post in recent:
    print(post.title)

new_post = BlogPost(
    title="Hello World",
    date=date.today(),
    tags=["intro"],
    content="# Hello\n\nIt works!",
)
posts.add(new_post)

There are also loads of utility functions.

# Get all published posts
published = posts.filter(lambda post: not post.draft)

# Get posts with specific tag
intro_posts = posts.filter(lambda post: "intro" in post.tags)

# Chain filters
recent_published = posts.filter(lambda p: not p.draft).filter(lambda p: p.date.year == 2025)

It's meant to work with markdown files, but it should also work with yaml/json.

API Reference

Query Methods

• filter(predicate) - Filter items by a predicate function
• order_by(field) - Sort by field (prefix with - for descending)
• head(n=5) - Get first n items
• tail(n=5) - Get last n items
• to_list() - Materialize query to list
• count() - Count matching items
• first() - Get first item or None
• last() - Get last item or None
• exists(predicate=None) - Check if any items match
• get(filename) - Load specific file by name

Lifecycle Methods

• add(model, path=None) - Add new model to collection (returns Path)
• update(model) - Update existing model on disk (returns Path)
• upsert(model) - Add if new, update if exists (returns Path)
• delete(target) - Delete by model, filename, or Path
• refresh(model) - Reload model from disk
• path_for(model) - Get disk path for a model

Iteration

Collections are iterable and return model instances:

for post in posts:
    print(post.title)

Why?

It makes it easier to write a custom CMS on top of your disk, which is nice. But it also feels like a fun thing that should exist. It's mainly a fun brainfart for now, but I can see some areas where I might make it better too.

1. Figure out a nice API for a nested collection. The library has one now, but undocumented for a reason.
2. Maybe make it more performant by seeing how far I can push the lazy loading. Though I doubt this will be worth it.