fluent_validation 1.1.0

A popular .NET validation library developed by 'Jeremy Skinner' for building strongly-typed validation rules, rewritten in python

FluentValidation

A validation library for Python that uses a fluent interface and lambda expressions for building strongly-typed validation rules.

The original library is written in .NET.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Creating your first validator

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Supporting the project

This module has been translated by @p-hzamora.

If you use FluentValidation in a commercial project, please sponsor the project financially. FluentValidation is developed and supported by @JeremySkinner for free in his spare time and financial sponsorship helps keep the project going. You can sponsor the project via either GitHub sponsors or OpenCollective.

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Get Started

FluentValidation can be installed using the pip package manager.

pip install fluent_validation

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Example

from fluent_validation import AbstractValidator

def BeAValidPostcode(postcode:str)->bool:
  # custom postcode validating logic goes here

class CustomerValidator(AbstractValidator[Customer]):
  def __init__(self)-> None:
    super().__init__()
    self.rule_for(lambda x: x.Surname).not_empty()
    self.rule_for(lambda x: x.Forename).not_empty().with_message("Please specify a first name")
    self.rule_for(lambda x: x.Discount).not_equal(0).when(lambda x: x.HasDiscount)
    self.rule_for(lambda x: x.Address).length(20, 250)
    self.rule_for(lambda x: x.Postcode).must(BeAValidPostcode).with_message("Please specify a valid postcode")



customer = Customer()
validator = CustomerValidator()

# Execute the validator
results = validator.validate(customer)

# Inspect any validation failures.
success = results.is_valid
failures = results.errors

License, Copyright etc

FluentValidation is copyright &copy 2008-2022 .NET Foundation, Jeremy Skinner and other contributors and is licensed under the Apache2 license.

Sponsors

The original project is sponsored by the following organisations whose support help keep this project going:

• Microsoft for their financial contribution
• JetBrains for providing licenses to their developer tools

The original project is part of the .NET Foundation.