Aidantic is a tiny library inspired by Pydantic, made to be more suitable for:
- Data parsing.
- Subclasses lookup (like
OneOfin JSON-Schema). - Input data validation:
- Exceptions store precise path.
- Plain types values validation, see
PlainWrapper. - Custom complex objects validation, see
ModelVisitorBase.
The library isn't aimed to become a full replacement of Pydantic
(e.g, there is no planned support of JSON Schema, OpenAPI),
but in some cases it's worth using :)
ToDo List:
- 1: optional strict value type check
- 2: field name aliases
- 3: OneOf typing: pass inner class methods
- 4: probably some default types are missed and not supported
License: GPL 3
Install with pip: pip install Aidantic
Or simply obtain a single source file from the repo.
from typing import List from aidantic import BaseModel class Model(BaseModel): name: str data: List[int] obj = Model(name="Foo", data=[61, 80, 33, 98]) assert obj.data[2] == 33
Simple yet boring, let's dive deeper!
Sometimes an object may contain instance(s)
of plenty subclasses, and you, or your auxiliary lib,
have to decide which class to use during parsing process.
For this aim, Aidantic provides built-in support of
One-Of logic: all you need is to specify a key,
which should be used to subclass picking,
and declare its values for the subclasses.
No Union with boring enumeration is needed!
from typing import List, Literal from aidantic import BaseModel, OneOf class RandomModel(BaseModel): _discriminator = "key" key: int class EuropeModel(RandomModel): key: Literal[271] value: str class PieModel(RandomModel): key: Literal[314] value: int class PackageModel(BaseModel): title: str content: List[OneOf[RandomModel]] data = dict(title="Bar42", content=[ dict(key=314, value=15926535), dict(key=271, value="lol"), ]) package = PackageModel(**data) package.validate() assert package.content[1].value == "lol" print(package)
Result:
PackageModel( title='Bar42', content=[ PieModel(key=314, value=15926535), EuropeModel(key=271, value='lol') ])
BTW, _discriminator may be a tuple of field names.
If you need to validate a set of values of plain types
(like str, int), you can utilise PlainWrapper class,
which can be used as a simple replacement of any plain type.
However, you should note that a wrapped value has
some limitations: typical isinstance usage won't work.
But comparison to plain values works well,
and you can easily access wrapper's value property.
There are a couple of use-cases:
from aidantic import PlainWrapper, BaseModel, CreationError, PathType class StatusCode(PlainWrapper["str"]): _allowed = {"foo", "bar", "lol"} def __init__(self, code, path: PathType): if code not in self._allowed: raise CreationError(f"Unknown code '{code}'", path) super().__init__(code, path) class SomeModel(BaseModel): code: StatusCode obj = SomeModel(code="bar") assert obj.code == "bar"
The same could be also written as a Union of Literals, but this would be too verbose.
If you have to perform more complex logic, e.g load allowed values later, or compare values from different objects, you can use a separate validator that will traverse your data models:
from typing import List from aidantic import PlainWrapper, BaseModel, ModelVisitorBase, ValidationError class StatusCode(PlainWrapper["str"]): pass class SomeModel(BaseModel): codes: List[StatusCode] class CrossValidator(ModelVisitorBase): _label = "Cross" _allowed = {"foo", "bar", "lol"} def __init__(self,): super().__init__() self.collected_codes = set() def visit(self, obj): super().visit(obj) unknown_codes = self.collected_codes - self._allowed if unknown_codes: raise ValidationError(f"Got {len(unknown_codes)} unknown codes", ()) def visit_wrapper(self, obj, _type, path): if issubclass(_type, StatusCode): self.collected_codes.add(str(obj)) obj = SomeModel(codes=["foo", "bar", "lol"]) CrossValidator().visit(obj)
Thanks to from_plain method,
it's pretty simple to write a parser that will translate
plain values like strings into objects:
from aidantic import BaseModel from expr import AnyExpr class Message(BaseModel): title: str formula: AnyExpr msg = Message( title="Please calculate the attached expression", formula="log(pi, 2.7182)", ) print(msg)
Message( title="Please calculate the attached expression", formula=ExprFunction(operator='FUNCTION', name='log', arguments=[ ExprField(operator='FIELD', name='pi'), ExprLiteral(operator='LITERAL', value=2.7182) ]) )
See tests/test_expr.py
for implementation details!
While I was developing CI and scenario scripts for my GameDev pet-project Destiny Garden, I've met a need to parse and validate large scripts written in custom YAML-based format. I tried to use my beloved Pydantic for this problem, but found it too focused on networking, ORM logic and too rigid for game scenario scripting, so quickly I've developed this library which is small yet powerful for dealing with such specialised problems.