tinydb-constraint

Apply constraints before inserting and updating TinyDB records.

Installation

Method 1:

$ pip install tinydb-constraint

Method 2:

• Clone the project from GitHub
• Get poetry and poetry install tinydb-constraint --path PATH/TO/TINYDB/CONSTRAINT

Usage

>>> from tinydb import TinyDB
>>> from tinydb_constraint import ConstraintTable
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> TinyDB.table_class = ConstraintTable
>>> db = TinyDB('db.json')
>>> db.set_schema({
...     'record_id': int,
...     'modified': datetime
... })
>>> db.schema
{
    'record_id': Constraint(type_=int, unique=False, not_null=False),
    'modified': Constraint(type_=datetime.datetime, unique=False, not_null=False)
}

Note

I haven't modified the serialization yet, so datetime type will actually produce datetime.isoformat(), and to set datetime, you have to pass a dateutil.parser.parse()-parsable string.

Advanced usage

Database schema is also settable via Constraint object.

>>> from tinydb_constraint import Constraint
>>> db.set_schema({
...     'user_id': Constraint(type_=int, unique=True, not_null=True)
... })

If you want to disable certain string sanitization features, like stripping spaces or checking if string can be converted to datetime, this can be done by setting environmental variables.

TINYDB_SANITIZE=0
TINYDB_DATETIME=0

Plan

• Add ForeignKey constraints.

Related projects

• tinydb-viewer - View records generated from TinyDB and alike (e.g. list of dictionaries.)