OMM 1.0.1

Object Model Mapper for Python-based web apps and/or APIs

Object Model Mapper

What This?

This script enables to flat/bump the model depth.

Why I Make This?

When I used MongoEngine, I needed to design the model like this:

import mongoengine as db

class RecentPrevAmount(db.EmbeddedDocument):
  recent = db.FloatField()
  prev = db.FloatField()

class AssetInfo(db.Document):
  assets = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(RecentPrevAmount)
  cash = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(RecentPrevAmount)
  receivable = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(RecentPrevAmount)
  revenue = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(RecentPrevAmount)
  cogs = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(RecentPrevAmount)

And creating RestAPI in above order without "Undefiend property" error, it is needed to create 5 CRUD resources:

• [GET, POST, PUT, DELETE] /assets
• [GET, POST, PUT, DELETE] /cash
• [GET, POST, PUT, DELETE] /receivable
• [GET, POST, PUT, DELETE] /revenue
• [GET, POST, PUT, DELETE] /cogs

For each resource, the text like following is output/input:

{"recent": 10.0, "prev": 14.0}

This means, sending tons of requests is needed to file asset information and it may have frontend slow. To avoid the problem, the number of request to send should be reduced as far as possible. The ideal resource is one resource with the following format:

{
  "assets_recent": 10.0,
  "assets_prev": 11.0,
  "cash_recent": 12.0,
  "receivable_prev": 13.0,
  "revenue_recent": 14.0,
  "cogs_prev": 15.0
}

Of course, above is not good for public api (On public api, recent and prev should be embedded in a field), but above structure reduces the number of requests.

How to use

I think you must need example code than the doc.

Flat the model

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf-8

"""
Example code.

Note that this is just an example.
"""
import mongoengine as db
import omm
import wtforms.forms as forms
import wtforms.fields as fld
import wtforms.validators as vld
from ..api import api, render, login_only

# First, let's define the target models as usual.
class Address(db.EmbeddedDocument):
  street = db.ListField(db.StringField, required=True)
  city = db.StringField(required=True)
  state = db.StringField(required=True)
  country = db.StringField(required=True)

class User(db.Document):
  email = EmailField(primary_key=True)
  first_name = StringField(required=True)
  last_name = StringField(required=True)
  address = db.EmbeddedDocument(Address, required=True)

  @property
  def full_name(self):
    return (" ").join([self.first_name, self.last_name])

  @full_name.setter
  def full_name(self, value):
    try:
      (self.first_name, self.last_name) = value.split(" ")
    except ValueError:
      pass

# Then, define the map.
class UserMapper(omm.Mapper):
  # Note that set_cast can be non-list, i.e. str. However, in this case,
  # we use User because the root object type is User.
  fullname = omm.MapField("full_name", set_cast=[User, str])
  email = omm.MapField("email", set_cast=[User, str])
  # For third element should be list or any class that inherits list because
  # the target is typed as list.
  street1 = omm.MapField(
    "address.street[0]", set_cast=[User, Address, list, str]
  )
  street2 = omm.MapField(
    "address.street[1]", set_cast=[User, Address, list, str]
  )
  # Note that dot-notation is used to specify the member.
  city = omm.MapField("address.city", set_cast=[User, Address, str])
  state = omm.MapField("address.state", set_cast=[User, Address, str])
  country = omm.MapField("address.country", set_cast=[User, Address, str])

class UserForm(forms.Form):
  fullname = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.DataRequired()])
  email = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.Email()])
  street1 = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.DataRequired()])
  street2 = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.Optional()])
  city = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.DataRequired()])
  state = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.DataRequired()])
  country = fld.StringField(validators=[vld.DataRequired()])

class UserController(object):
  # User API

  def get(self, id):
    # GET request.
    user = User.objects()
    mapper = UserMapper(user)
    return render(mapper.to_json(), mimetype="application/json")

  def post(self):
    # POST request.
    form = UserForm(api.request.json())
    if not form.validate():
      return render(
        api.jsonify(form.errors),
        mimetype="application/json",
        code=417
      )
    mapper = UserMapper()
    form.populate_obj(mapper)
    mapper.connected_object.save()

  @login_only
  def put(self, uid):
    # PUT request.
    form = UserForm(api.request.json())
    if not form.validate():
      return render(
        api.jsonify(form.errors),
        mimetype="application/json",
        code=417
      )
    mapper = UserMapper(User.objects(uid))
    form.populate_obj(mapper)
    mapper.connected_object.save()

api.register(UserController)

Increment the model depth

Currently, I'm considering (and designing) the way to access multiple models thru the mapper. Unfortunately the functionalities are not implemented yet.

Other functionalities

Read the code

License (MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016 Hiroaki Yamamoto

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