django-dataclass-autoserialize

An extension of slightly modified oxan's django-dataclass-serialize (Temporary hosted here). Making it much more enjoyable to use with drf-yasg.

The goal of this package is to make the APIView code as succinctly as possible. The main pain point it is trying to solve is

1. Having to define the param class and serialize separately.
2. Having it nicely integrate with drf-yasg without having to duplicate information.

Install

pip install django-dataclass-autoserialize

Documentation

Simple Usage

Here is an example of a typical usage. Pull straight from Example Project

from __future__ import annotations
from django_dataclass_autoserialize import AutoSerialize, swagger_post_schema, swagger_get_schema
from dataclasses import dataclass

from rest_framework.request import Request
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView


@dataclass
class InputParam(AutoSerialize):
    a: int
    b: int

    @classmethod
    def example(cls) -> InputParam:
        # this is actually optional but it will show up
        # in swagger doc
        return cls(a=3, b=2)


@dataclass
class ComputeResponse(AutoSerialize):
    msg: str
    result: int

    @classmethod
    def example(cls) -> ComputeResponse:
        return cls(msg='hello world', result=5)


class AddView(APIView):

    @swagger_post_schema(
        body_type=InputParam,
        response_types={200: ComputeResponse}
    )
    def post(self, request: Request) -> Response:
        param = InputParam.from_post_request(request)
        return ComputeResponse(msg='add successfully',
                               result=param.a + param.b).to_response()


class SubtractView(APIView):
    @swagger_get_schema(
        query_type=InputParam,
        response_types={200: ComputeResponse}
    )
    def get(self, request: Request) -> Response:
        param = InputParam.from_get_request(request)
        return ComputeResponse(msg='subtract successfully',
                               result=param.a - param.b).to_response()

Then the swagger will shows up like the following

Customization

Under the hood it uses djangorestframework-dataclasses. So all the customization that can be done for dataclass is applied here as well. For example, you can add serializer_kwargs like so

@dataclasses.dataclass
class Person:
    email: str = dataclasses.field(metadata={'serializer_field': fields.EmailField()})
    age: int = dataclasses.field(metadata={'serializer_kwargs': {'min_value': 0}})

Validation

The validation of the object can be done by overiding validate_data(cls, obj) method. For example

class Numbers(AutoSerialize):
    a: int
    b: int

    @classmethod
    def validate_data(cls, obj: Numbers) -> Numbers:
        from rest_framework.exceptions import ValidationError
        if obj.a + obj.b > 1000:
            raise ValidationError('too big')
        return obj

Swagger

drg-yasg integration is done through swagger_get_schema and swagger_get_schema decorator. See simple example for the usage. keywords other than query_type/body_type and response_types are forwarded to drf-yasg's swagger_auto_schema.