datatype - Anonymous datatype validation and coercion

For full package documenation, please see: http://datatype.readthedocs.org/

Examples

>>> from datatype.validation import failures

>>> datatype = {'foo': [{'bar': 'int'}]}
>>> bad_value = {'foo': [{'bar': 'baz'}], 'bif': 'pow!'}

>>> failures(datatype, bad_value)
['unexpected property "bif"', 'foo[0].bar: expected int, got str']

Wildcard dictionary keys:

>>> datatype = {'_any_': ['int']}
>>> good_value = {'foo': [1, 2, 3], 'bar': [3, 4, 5]}

>>> failures(datatype, good_value)
[]

Coercion:

>>> from datatype.coercion import coerce_value

>>> coerce_value(['str'], [1, 2, 3])
['1', '2', '3']

Copyright and License

Copyright 2011-2012 LearningStation, Inc. and Adam Wagner

Licensed under the BSD-3 License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file.