Flask-JsonSchemer

Flask extension for validating JSON requets


License
MIT
Install
pip install Flask-JsonSchemer==0.0.1

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Flask-JsonSchemer

JSON request validation for Flask applications.

Place schemas in the specified JSONSCHEMER_DIR.

import os

from flask import Flask, request
from flask.ext.jsonschemer import JsonSchemer, ValidationError, validate

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['JSONSCHEMER_DIR'] = os.path.join(app.root_path, 'schemas')

JsonSchemer(app)

@app.errorhandler(ValidationError)
def on_validation_error(e):
    return "error"

@app.route('/books', methods=['POST'])
@validate('books', 'create')
def create_book():
    # create the book
    return 'success'

The schema for the example above should be named books.json and should reside in the configured folder. It should look like so:

{
  "create": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "title": {},
      "author": {}
    },
    "required": ["title", "author"]
  },
  "update": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "title": {},
      "author": {}
    }
  }
}

Notice the top level action names. Flask-JsonSchemer supports one "path" level so that you can organize related schemas in one file. If you do not wish to use this feature you can simply use one schema per file and remove the second parameter to the @validate call.

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