simplepath 0.3.5

simplepath is a dictionary lookup utility/mapper with performance in mind

simplepath is a library for data-structure lookups using super simple expressions with performance in mind. “simplepath” is a word play on some other *path technologies such as xpath, jsonpath, jpath, etc.

• Free software: MIT license

• GitHub: https://github.com/dealertrack/simplepath

Inspiration

The inspiration for simplepath was performance. Many other libraries focus on making single lookups, however they fall short when a lot of data needs to be queried.

For example if a dictionary with some structure needs to be converted into another dictionary with a different structure, a simple and configurable way of doing that might be to define a configuration dictionary where the keys will be the keys of the output dictionary, and values will be lookup expressions to get appropriate data:

{
    "greetings": "foo.greeting",
    "planet": "foo.[0].planet",
    ...
}

The above approach is easy to implement, however is not very performant since for each lookup the lookup expression will have to be evaluated. At dealertrack, we needed to do something similar at some point and tried jsonpath-rw which would sometimes take 15 seconds to map dictionaries with only a couple hundred expressions. Upon some investigation, most of the time was being spent in ply. Unfortunately we did not find another comparable library which accomplished everything we needed, and satisfied our performance requirements, so simplepath was born.

Installing

You can install simplepath using pip:

$ pip install simplepath

Quick Guide

Here is a quick example.

from simplepath.mapper import Mapper

class MyMapper(Mapper):
    config = {
        'greetings': 'example.greetings',
        'to': 'example.planets.<find:planet=Earth>.residents',
    }

data = {
    'example': {
        'greetings': 'Hello',
        'planets': [
            {
                'planet': 'Mars',
                'residents': 'martians',
            },
            {
                'planet': 'Earth',
                'residents': 'people',
            },
            {
                'planet': 'Space',
                'residents': 'aliens',
            },
        ]
    }
}

MyMapper.map_data(data) == {
    'greetings': 'Hello',
    'to': 'people',
}

Testing

To run the tests you need to install testing requirements first:

$ make install

Then to run tests, you can use nosetests or simply use Makefile command:

$ nosetests -sv
# or
$ make test

History

0.3.5 (2018-06-14)

• Fixed bug in which TypeError would result if a None value were mapped to a ListConfig

0.3.4 (2017-07-28)

• Using wheel for distribution

• Removed tests from being packaged

• Switched to using Python 3.6 vs 3.5 for running Travis builds

0.3.3 (2016-05-15)

• Fixed bug where global LUT would leak data when calling expressions within custom lookups. See #11.

• Switched to using Python 3.5 vs 3.4 for running Travis builds

0.3.2 (2015-09-14)

• Registered AsTypeLookup and ArithmeticLookup as as_type and arith lookups in default lookup registry

0.3.1 (2015-08-28)

• Added the AsTypeLookup and ArithmeticLookup

0.3.0 (2015-07-15)

• Added ability to use lists in the simplepath config which will generate a list in the mapped data

0.2.0 (2015-06-26)

• Added deepvars utility which is useful when using simplepath with objects

0.1.1 (2015-03-31)

• Fixed a link to the repo in the package description

0.1.0 (2015-01-08)

• First release

Credits

This utility was created at dealertrack technologies (dealertrack GitHub) for our internal use so thank you dealertrack for allowing to contribute the utility to the open-source community.

Development Lead

• Miroslav Shubernetskiy - https://github.com/miki725

Contributors

• Ndubisi Onuora - https://github.com/NdubisiOnuora

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014, dealertrack technologies

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