UIClasses - Data-Modeling for User Interfaces

• Powered by Python 3 Data Classes.
• Objects optimized for user interfaces.
• Methods to traverse nested dicts, convert to and from json
• ModelList and ModelSet collections for robust manipulation of collections of models.
• No I/O happens in models.
• Collections can be easily cached to leverage responsive user interfaces.

Installation

pip install uiclasses

Basic Usage

from uiclasses import Model


class BlogPost(Model):
    id: int
    title: str
    body: str


post1 = BlogPost({"id": 1, "title": "title 1", "body": "body 1", "wimsical_extra_field": "lala land"})
post2 = BlogPost(id=2, title="title 2", body="body 2", extradata='stored but invisible')

published = BlogPost.List([post1, post2])

print(published.format_pretty_table())

print(published.format_robust_table())

Notes:

• This is not designed to be fast, when adding data to models their types might cast and validated, which is costly. - filtering collections by string values cause glob match