validobj 1.6

Validobj gives you valid objects

Validobj

Validobj is library that takes semistructured data (for example JSON and YAML configuration files) and converts it to more structured Python objects. It places the emphasis on:

• Good error messages (rather than avoiding extra work in the error handling code).
• Schema defined in terms of dataclasses and other high level objects such as enums, as well as a subset of the typing module.
• Simplicity of implementation (rather than full generality).

Validobj requires a modern Python version and has no other dependencies. It progressively supports typing features as they are implemented in the standard library and language: A limited subset of the parsing facilities work with Python 3.8, which is the minimum version. The custom validation module requires at least Python 3.9.

Documentation

https://validobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Example

1. Define a schema using dataclasses

   import dataclasses
   import enum
   from typing import Literal
   
   
   class DiskPermissions(enum.Flag):
       READ = enum.auto()
       WRITE = enum.auto()
       EXECUTE = enum.auto()
   
   
   
   
   @dataclasses.dataclass
   class Job:
       name: str
       os: set[Literal['windows', 'mac', 'linux']]
       script_path: str
       framework_version: tuple[int, int] = (1, 0)
       disk_permissions: DiskPermissions = DiskPermissions.READ
   
   
   @dataclasses.dataclass
   class CIConf:
       stages: list[Job]
       global_environment: dict[str, str] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=dict)
   

2. Process a dictionary input into it using Validobj

   from validobj import parse_input
   
   inp = {
       'global_environment': {'CI_ACTIVE': '1'},
       'stages': [
           {
               'name': 'compile',
               'os': ['linux', 'mac'],
               'script_path': 'build.sh',
               'disk_permissions': ['READ', 'WRITE', 'EXECUTE'],
           },
           {
               'name': 'test',
               'os': ['linux', 'mac'],
               'script_path': 'test.sh',
               'framework_version': [4, 0],
           },
       ],
   }
   print(parse_input(inp, CIConf))
   # This results in a dataclass instance with the correct types:
   #
   # CIConf(stages=[
   #                Job(name='compile',
   #                    os={'linux', 'mac'},
   #                    script_path='build.sh',
   #                    framework_version=(1, 0),
   #                    disk_permissions=<DiskPermissions.READ|WRITE|EXECUTE: 7>),
   #                Job(name='test',
   #                    os={'linux', 'mac'},
   #                    script_path='test.sh',
   #                    framework_version=(4, 0),
   #                    disk_permissions=<DiskPermissions.READ: 1>)],
   #        global_environment={'CI_ACTIVE': '1'}
   # )
   

The set of applied transformations as well as the interface to customise processing are described in the documentation

Installation

The package can be installed with pip:

python3 -m pip install validobj

As well as with conda, from the conda-forge channel:

conda install validobj -c conda-forge

The code is hosted at

https://github.com/Zaharid/validobj