pycoercer 0.1.2

Fast Python JSON schema validation and normalization

Fast Python JSON schema validation and normalization

v = Validator({
  'User': {
    'items': {
      'name': {'coerce': 'str'},
      'gender': {
        'map': {
          'woman': 'female',
          'man': 'male',
          None: 'other'  # Map everything else
        },
        'synonyms': ['sex']
      },
      'country': {
        'default': '{GEOIP2_COUNTRY}'
      }
    }
  }
})

args = {'GEOIP2_COUNTRY': 'UK'}

v['User']({
  'name': 123,
  'sex': 'woman'
}, args)

# Returns:
#
# ({
#    'name': '123',
#    'gender': 'female',
#    'country': 'UK'
#  },
#  None)  # Error description

Features

Pycoercer was created to meet the actual production needs for web apps development - inspired by jsonschema and Cerberus, it also implements additional features: - Can validate, normalize (or coerce) dicts and lists - Fast - the schema is compiled into python code - Clean rules system with a predictable order of execution - Parametric default and if_null values - Keywords for data coercion: synonyms, map, and post_coerce - Check examples against the schema definition

Installation

$ pip install pycoercer

Documentation

Complete documentation will be [sometime][docs]

Testing

$ pytest