pysimplemodel 1.0.1

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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, nor dicts or instances of type classes whatever)
- Support for field validation
- Conversion 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.

.. contents:: **Table of Contents**


How to install
--------------

.. code:: shell

pip install pysimplemodel


How to use
----------

.. code:: python

from simple_model import Model
from simple_model.exceptions import ValidationError


class Person(Model):
age: int
height: float
name: str
weight: float

class Meta:
allow_empty = ('height', 'weight')

def clean_name(self, name):
return name.strip()

def validate_age(self, age):
if 0 > age > 150:
raise ValidationError('Invalid value for age "{!r}"'.format(age))

def validate_height(self, height):
if height <= 0:
raise ValidationError('Invalid value for height "{!r}"'.format(age))

.. code:: python

>>> person = Person(age=18.0, name='John Doe ')
>>> person.name
'John Doe '
>>> person.clean()
>>> person.name
'John Doe'
>>> person.age
18
>>> person.validate(raise_exception=False)
True
>>> dict(person)
{
'age': 18,
'height': '',
'name': 'John Doe',
'weight': '',
}


Validation
----------

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)
>>> 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)
>>> person.validate(raise_exception=False)
True


Cleaning
--------

Sometimes it is necessary to clean some values of your models, this can be
easily done using simple-model:

.. code:: python

class CleanPerson(Model):
age: int
name: str

def clean_name(self, name):
return name.strip()


>>> person = CleanPerson(name='John Doe \n', age='10')
>>> person.name, person.age
('John Doe \n', '10')
>>> person.clean()
>>> person.name, person.age
('John Doe', 10)


Build many models
-----------------

It's possible to build many models in a single step, it can be done by passing an iterable
to the `build_many` method.

.. code:: python

>>> people = [
{'name': 'John Doe'},
{'name': 'John Doe II'},
]
>>> models = Person.build_many(people)


Conversion to Dict
------------------

To convert to dict is pretty straight-forward task:

.. code:: python

>>> person = Person(name='Jane Doe', age=60)
>>> dict(person)
{
'age': 60,
'height': None,
'name': 'Jane Doe',
'weight': None,
}


Simple model also supports dict conversion of nested models:

.. code:: python

class SocialPerson(Model):
friend: Person
name: str


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


It also supports nested models as lists:

.. code:: python

import typing


class MoreSocialPerson(Model):
friends: typing.List[Friend]
name: str


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

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Changes
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1.0.1 / 2018-01-10
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* Fix setup.py

1.0.0 / 2018-01-10
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* Move model field customization to Meta class inside model
* Support field definition using type hints (python 3.6 only)
* Drop support for python 3.4 and 3.5
* Remove ``DynamicModel``
* Add Changes file and automate versioning from parsing it
* Move main docs to sphinx
* Improve documentation


0.15.0 / 2017-19-12
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* Use pipenv
* Drop python 3.3 support


0.14.0 / 2017-21-11
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* Add ``model_many_builder()``. It builds lists of models from data lists
* Fix travis config

0.13.0 / 2017-21-11
===================

* Transfrom ``BaseModel.is_empty`` from an instance method to a class method
* Don't raise an exception when ``BaseModel.build_many`` receives empty iterable. Instead returns another empty iterable