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Simple Models for Python

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Simple Model
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*SimpleModel* offers a simple way to handle data using classes instead of a
plenty of lists and dicts.

It has simple objectives:

- Define your fields easily (just a tuple, not dicts or instances from type classes whatever)
- Support for field validation
- Serialize to dict

That's it. If you want something more complex there are plenty of libraries and frameworks that does a lot of cool stuff.

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How to install
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.. code:: shell

pip install pysimplemodel

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How to use
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.. code:: python

from simple_model import Model
from simple_model.exceptions import ValidationError


class Person(Model):
fields = ('name', 'age', 'gender', 'height', 'weight')
allow_empty = ('height', 'weight')

def validate_age(self, value):
if 0 > value > 150:
raise ValidationError

def validate_gender(self, value):
if value not in ('M', 'F'):
raise ValidationError

.. code:: python

>> person = Person(name='John Doe', age=18, gender='M')
>> person.name
'John Doe'
>> person.validate()
>> person.serialize()
{'name': 'John Doe', 'age': 18, 'gender': 'M', 'height': '', 'weight': ''}


Validation
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Model values aren't validated until the `validated` method is called:

.. code:: python

>> person = Person() # no exception
>> person.validate()
...
EmptyField: name field cannot be empty
>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60, gender='F')
>> person.validate() # now it's ok!


You may change the validate method to return a boolean instead of raising an exception:

.. code:: python

>> person = Person()
>> person.validate(raise_exception=False)
False
>>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60, gender='F')
>>> person.validate(raise_exception=False)
True

Custom validation can make your simple models awesome:

.. code:: python


Serialization
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Simple serialization is pretty straight-forward:

.. code:: python
>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60, gender='F')
>> person.serialize()
{'age': 60, 'gender': 'F', 'height': None, 'name': 'Jane Doe', 'weight': None}

You may also hide some fields from serialization by passing a list to the `serialize` method:

.. code:: python
>> person.serialize(exclude_fields=('gender', 'weight'))
{'age': 60, 'height': None, 'name': 'Jane Doe'}

Simple model also supports nested models:

.. code:: python

class SocialPerson(Model):
fields = ('name', 'friend')

>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60, gender='F')
>> other_person = SocialPerson(name='John Doe', friend=person)
>> other_person.serialize()
{'friend': {'age': 60, 'gender': 'F', 'height': None, 'name': 'Jane Doe', 'weight': None}, 'name': 'John Doe'}


It also supports nested models as lists:

.. code:: python

class MoreSocialPerson(Model):
fields = ('name', 'friends')

>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60, gender='F')
>> other_person = Person(name='John Doe', age=15, gender='M')
>> social_person = MoreSocialPerson(name='Foo Bar', friends=[person, other_person])
{
'name': 'Foo Bar',
'friends': [
{
'age': 60,
'gender': 'F',
'height': None,
'name': 'Jane Doe',
'weight': None
},
{
'age': 15,
'gender': 'M',
'height': None,
'name': 'John Doe',
'weight': None
}
]
}

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