pysxm 1.1

Simple and extensible xml python marshaller

pysxm is a simple and extensible xml python marshaller. It comes with two simple and basic types:

• SimpleType

• ComplexType

It supports py2 and py3 and uses lxml.objectify under the hood.

Installation

pip install pysxm

Quickstart

In [1]: from pysxm import ComplexType
In [2]: class Person(ComplexType):
...:     attrib = {'description': 'a random person'}
...:     def __init__(self, fname, lname):
...:         self.fname = fname
...:         self.lname = lname
...:
In [3]: person = Person('token', 'black')
In [4]: print(person)
<person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" description="a random person">
    <lname>black</lname>
    <fname>token</fname>
</person>

Let’s say, we want a different tag for our object. An attribute tagname or _tagname can be set to define the xml tag name of the object.

In [5]: class Person(ComplexType):
...:     attrib = {'description': 'a random person'}
...:     tagname = 'student'
...:     def __init__(self, fname, lname):
...:         self.fname = fname
...:         self.lname = lname
...:
In [6]: person = Person('token', 'black')
In [7]: print(person)
<student xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" description="a random person">
    <lname>black</lname>
    <fname>token</fname>
</student>

A sequence or _sequence (tuple or list) attribute can be set to decide of the order or the presence of an subelement in the xml.

In [8]: class Person(ComplexType):
...:     attrib = {'description': 'a random person'}
...:     tagname = 'student'
...:     _sequence = ('city', 'fname')
...:
...:     def __init__(self, fname, lname, city):
...:         self.fname = fname
...:         self.lname = lname
...:         self.city = city
...:
In [9]: person = Person('token', 'black', 'south park')
In [10]: print(person)
<student xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" description="a random person">
    <city>south park</city>
    <fname>token</fname>
</student>

Let’s add a namespace to our object.

In [11]: class Person(ComplexType):
...:     attrib = {'description': 'a random south park character'}
...:     nsmap = {'sp': 'http://southpark/xml/'}
...:
...:     def __init__(self, fname, lname, city):
...:         self.fname = fname
...:         self.lname = lname
...:         self.city = city
...:
In [12]: person = Person('token', 'black', 'south park')
In [13]: print(person)
<sp:person xmlns:sp="http://southpark/xml/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" description="a random south park character">
    <sp:lname>black</sp:lname>
    <sp:city>south park</sp:city>
    <sp:fname>token</sp:fname>
</sp:person>

Let’s make sure that a person’s group is either coon or goth. To do so, we can inherit from SimpleType object and define a restriction by overriding check_restriction(self, value) method.

In [7]: from pysxm import ComplexType, SimpleType
In [8]: class Group(SimpleType):
...:     allowed_groups = ('coon', 'goth')
...:     def check_restriction(self, value):
...:         if value not in self.allowed_groups:
...:             raise ValueError('<%s> value %s not in %s' % (self.tagname, value, self.allowed_groups))
...:
In [9]: class Person(ComplexType):
...:     def __init__(self, fname, lname, group):
...:         self.fname = fname
...:         self.lname = lname
...:         self.group = Group(group)
...:
In [10]: Person('token', 'black', 'boys')
...
<ipython-input-8-116b49042116> in check_restriction(self, value)
3     def check_restriction(self, value):
4         if value not in self.allowed_groups:
----> 5             raise ValueError('<%s> value %s not in %s' % (self.tagname, value, self.allowed_groups))
6
ValueError: <group> value boys not in ('coon', 'goth')

In [11]: print(Person('token', 'black', 'goth'))
<person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <lname>black</lname>
    <group>goth</group>
    <fname>token</fname>
</person>

Note: ComplexType can have ComplexType and SimpleType as attribute

from pysxm import ComplexType, SimpleType


class AdultAge(SimpleType):

    tagname = 'age'
    attrib = {'minvalue': '18', 'maxvalue': '100'}

    def check_restriction(self, value):
        if int(value) < 18:
            raise ValueError("<%s> '%d' < 18" % (self.tagname, value))


class Credentials(ComplexType):

    def __init__(self, login, password):
        self.login = login
        self.password = password


class Person(ComplexType):

    def __init__(self, fname, lname, credentials, age):
        self.fname = fname
        self.lname = lname
        self.credentials = Credentials(credentials['login'], credentials['password'])
        self.age = AdultAge(age)

In [3]: data = {
...:     'fname': 'token', 'lname': 'black',
...:     'credentials': {'login': 't0ken', 'password': 'l33tolite'},
...:     'age': '30'}
In [4]: person = Person(**data)
In [5]: print(person)
<person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <lname>black</lname>
    <credentials>
        <login>t0ken</login>
        <password>l33tolite</password>
    </credentials>
    <age maxvalue="100" minvalue="18">30</age>
    <fname>token</fname>
</person>
In [6]: person.save('token.xml')

The save method (object.save(<filename>)) allows you to save the xml result into a file.

In [7]: cat token.xml
<person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <lname>black</lname>
    <credentials>
        <login>t0ken</login>
        <password>l33tolite</password>
    </credentials>
    <age maxvalue="100" minvalue="18">30</age>
    <fname>token</fname>
</person>

The ext module

Pysxm comes with a couple of extended types. Those types are defined in pysxm.ext module.

DataComplexType

This is a simple DataClass of ComplexType. Here is how you can set one up:

from pysxm.ext import DataComplexType, XSimpleType


class Game(DataComplexType):
     platform = XSimpleType('platform', ['xboxone', 'xboxx'], lambda v, av: v in av)

>>> game = (name='state of decay 2', editor='undead labs', platform='xboxone')
>>> print(game)
<game>
    <name>state of decay 2</name>
    <platform>xboxone</platform>
    <editor>undead labs</editor>
</game>

XSimpleType

It gets tiresome to subclass a SimpleType everytime you want to check a value. To overcome that, pysxm provides a descriptor called XSimpleType:

class XSimpleType(name=None, restriction=None, checker=None, error_msg=None)
    '''name: it's the name of the attribute.
    restriction: self explanatory
    checker: the fucntion that checks the input value
    error_msg: message returned when checking fails
    '''

Here is an example:

class XboxGamer(ComplexType):
    platform = XSimpleType('platform', ('xone', 'xbox360', 'xbox'), lambda v, av: v in av)
    score = XSimpleType('score', (4000, 1000000), lambda v, av: int(av[0]) <= int(v) < int(av[1]))
    lastlogin = XDateTimeType('lastlogin')

    def __init__(self, gamertag, platform, score, lastlogin):
        self.gamertag = gamertag
        self.platform = platform
        self.score = score
        self.lastlogin = lastlogin

In [1]: print(gamer_data)
{'gamertag': 'LokingHD', 'platform': 'ps4', 'score': '22526', 'lastlogin': '2018-03-21'}
In [2]: XboxGamer(**gamer_data)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-61f95466da46> in <module>()
----> 1 XboxGamer(**gamer_data)
/home/josue/workspace/dev/pysxdb/pysxm/ext.pyc in check(self, instance, value)
77         if not self.checker(value, self.restriction_values):
78             raise ValueError('tagname <%s> value %s is invalid: expected (%s)'
---> 79                              % (instance.tagname, value, self.restriction_values))
    80
81     def check_restriction(self, instance, value):
ValueError: tagname <xboxgamer> value ps4 is invalid: expected (('xone', 'xbox360', 'xbox'))
In [3]: gamer_data['platform'] = 'xone'
In [4]: gamer = XboxGamer(**gamer_data)
In [5]: print(gamer)
<xboxgamer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <gamertag>LokingHD</gamertag>
    <platform>xone</platform>
    <score>22526</score>
    <lastlogin>2018-03-21T00:00:00</lastlogin>
</xboxgamer>

Most of the types defined in pysxm.ext are descriptors and they’re subclassable.

Voila :wink: