stele1-datatypes

Core datatypes for stele1 catalogs.

Covers Metadata, Climb, Area, Photo, Parking, and Trail. See the stele1 spec for the data model these implement.

Each datatype validates its input and exposes from_data / to_data for serialization to and from plain dicts.

Use

from uuid import uuid4
from stele1.climb import Climb

# from existing data
climb = Climb.from_data({
    'uuid': '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000',
    'name': 'Centerpede',
    'rating': {'difficulty': 'V4'},
})

# or built up directly
other = Climb(uuid4())
other.name = 'Millipede'
other.rating = {'difficulty': 'V5'}

climb.name                       # 'Centerpede'
climb.name = 'Centerpede Low'
climb.rating = None              # remove an attribute

climb.to_data()                  # plain dict, ready for json.dumps

Attributes are plain values: strings, numbers, tuples, dicts. Assigning validates immediately; invalid values raise TypeError or ValueError at the assignment, naming the problem:

climb.length = {'lower_estimate': 3, 'upper_estimate': 2, 'unit': 'meters'}
# ValueError: climb .length lower_estimate must not exceed upper_estimate

Every record requires a uuid at construction. uuid.UUID instances are accepted and stored as the canonical lowercase string.

to_data returns fresh plain dicts. json.dumps(climb.to_data()) produces spec-compliant output; formatting is up to the caller. Sequence attributes are returned as tuples; to change one, assign a new value:

climb.tags = [*(climb.tags or ()), 'highball']

Attribute validators

Each datatype module also exposes its attribute validators, usable on their own:

from stele1.climb import validate_rating

validate_rating({'difficulty': 'V12'})   # returns the validated value
validate_rating({})                      # raises ValueError

Compatibility behavior

Per the spec's versioning rules: unknown top-level attributes are preserved verbatim through from_data / to_data, and unknown nested keys raise.

Some checks here are deliberately stricter than the spec; they are marked beyond spec in the source. To read records that this strictness rejects, use DictCatalog from stele1-filesystem.

Install

pip install stele1-datatypes

Development

Source and issues live at codeberg.org/stele-climbing/stele1.

License

MIT