BaseField¶

class json2py.models.BaseField(**kwargs)[source]¶

Base Class holding and defining common features for all the other subclasses.

Parameters:	name – Name of the field in source data.
Note:	This class must be treated as abstract class and should not be reimplemented.

json_decode(data, **kwargs)[source]¶

Parses a JSON-string into this object. This method is intended to build the JSON to Object map, so it doesn’t return any value, instead, the object is built into self.

Parameters:	data – JSON-string passed to json.loads() kwargs – Parameters passed to json.loads()

json_encode(**kwargs)[source]¶

Converts an object of class BaseField into JSON representation (string) using BaseEncoder JSONEncoder.

Parameters:	kwargs – Parameters passed to json.dumps()
Returns:	JSON-string representation of this object.

TextField¶

class json2py.models.TextField(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing a string field in JSON.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not a string nor None

IntegerField¶

class json2py.models.IntegerField(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing an integer field in JSON.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not a integer nor None

FloatField¶

class json2py.models.FloatField(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing a float field in JSON.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not a float nor None

BooleanField¶

class json2py.models.BooleanField(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing boolean field in JSON.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not boolean nor None

NestedField¶

class json2py.models.NestedField(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing a document field in JSON.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not a dict nor None

ListField¶

class json2py.models.ListField(value=None, *args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Class representing a list field in JSON. This class implements list interface so you can slicing, appending, popping, etc.

Parameters:	name – It has the same meaning as in BaseField value – It is the raw data that is this object will represent once parsed.
Raises:	ParseException – If value is not a list nor None
Note:	Hinting the structure of values of the list should be done using the meta variable __model__ inside class reimplementation.
Note:	JSON lists’ values can be of any type even in the same list, but in real world apps, every JSON lists’ values should be of the same type, this behaviour also simplifies this module, so this class expects that all values in lists must have the same structure.

User modelling¶

The user data used on this example will be extracted from https://api.github.com/users/wiston999

Let’s suppose we want to grab the user’s id, login, url, type and if user is admin. This task can be done with the following code.

We will map the type key into a field named user_type into our model.

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from json2py.models import *

class User(NestedField):
    login = TextField()
    id = IntegerField()
    url = TextField()
    user_type = TextField(name = 'type')
    site_admin = BooleanField()

And we are all done! Now let’s request the Github’s user info endpoint.

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import requests
from models import User

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/wiston999')
my_user = User(response.json())
print my_user.login.value, "'s stats:"
print "id:", my_user.id.value
print "login:", my_user.login.value
print "url:", my_user.url.value
print "type:", my_user.user_type.value
print "site_admin:", my_user.site_admin.value

Output after executing this code is

Wiston999 's stats:
id: 1099504
login: Wiston999
url: https://api.github.com/users/Wiston999
type: User
site_admin: False

This is how modeling works, all you have to do is define class variables into the class inheriting from json2py.models.NestedField.

Repository modeling¶

The next step will be modeling a repository information from Github. We will use the information from this repository, https://api.github.com/repos/wiston999/json2py. We want to get the id, name, full_name, is_private, description, size, language, default_branch and the owner fields. One can notice that owner nested document looks familiar, as it shares several fields with the data on https://api.github.com/users/wiston999. We notice too that shared data is already modeled into the previous example, so, let’s use a bit of code re-utilization.

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class User(NestedField):
    login = TextField()
    id = IntegerField()
    url = TextField()
    user_type = TextField(name = 'type')
    site_admin = BooleanField()

class Repo(NestedField):
    id = IntegerField()
    name = TextField()
    full_name = TextField()
    owner = User()
    is_private = BooleanField(name = 'private')
    description = TextField()
    size = IntegerField()
    language = TextField()
    default_branch = TextField()

Notice how the owner field is an instance of User class defined above.

Let’s try these models

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import requests
from models import User, Repo

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/wiston999/json2py')
this_repo = Repo(response.json())
print this_repo.name.value, "'s stats:"
print "id:", this_repo.id.value
print "full_name:", this_repo.full_name.value
print "owner:", this_repo.owner.login.value
print "private:", this_repo.is_private.value
print "description:", this_repo.description.value
print "language:", this_repo.language.value
print "default_branch:", this_repo.default_branch.value

Will output

json2py 's stats:
id: 54333024
full_name: Wiston999/json2py
owner: Wiston999
private: False
description: Convert JSON/dict to python object and viceversa
language: Python
default_branch: master

Repository list modeling¶

As a last example, lest loop the loop, we are going to model the data returned by https://api.github.com/users/Wiston999/repos request. We see that this is a list of repositories, which we have already modeled, so, this should be as simple as

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class User(NestedField):
    login = TextField()
    id = IntegerField()
    url = TextField()
    user_type = TextField(name = 'type')
    site_admin = BooleanField()

class Repo(NestedField):
    id = IntegerField()
    name = TextField()
    full_name = TextField()
    owner = User()
    is_private = BooleanField(name = 'private')
    description = TextField()
    size = IntegerField()
    language = TextField()
    default_branch = TextField()

class RepoList(ListField):
    __model__ = Repo

Everything done! Let’s try it

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import requests
from models import RepoList

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/wiston999/repos')
user_repo_list = RepoList(response.json())
print "wiston999's repositories:"
for repo in user_repo_list:
    print "Repository name:", repo.name.value, "with id:", repo.id.value, "written in", repo.language.value
    print "Repository Owner:", repo.owner.login.value
    print '-'*70

And the output

wiston999 repositories:
Repository name: BRTMT with id: 24468609 written in JavaScript
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: cursoJS with id: 14053600 written in JavaScript
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: DDSBox with id: 36035006 written in Java
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: DSS with id: 20038644 written in Python
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: ISIII with id: 3630135 written in None
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: json2py with id: 54333024 written in Python
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: Plataforma with id: 2506501 written in Python
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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Repository name: repos-git with id: 20038280 written in Python
Repository Owner: Wiston999
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