Data Transformation

Data transformation is performed automatically when you call initializer.

@jsonclassclass StringEntry:    name: str    value: str = types.str.trim.required

entry = StringEntry(name='Page Title', value=' \n My Title  \n  ')# name: 'Page Title', value: 'My Title'

Data transformation is also performed when you call the set method.

@jsonclassclass StringEntry:    name: str    value: str = types.str.trim.required

entry = StringEntry(**input)entry.set(name='Page Title', value=' \n My Title  \n  ')# name: 'Page Title', value: 'My Title'

Avoid the Transformation

To avoid the transforming behavior, use update method or assign on the property directly. You may not want to expose these calls to web API, thus keep it private and only use them internally.

@jsonclassclass StringEntry:    name: str    value: str = types.str.trim.required

entry = StringEntry(name='Page Title', value=' \n My Title  \n  ')entry.update(value='  Padded Title')# name: 'Page Title', value: '  Padded Title  '

Transformation Modifiers

By default, data type modifiers like enum, date and datetime transforms raw and network input into the correct type. There are a lot of common and useful modifiers like trim, tolower, toupper, etc... For a complete list of validation modifiers, see Types Modifiers.

Custom Transformers

If builtin transformers don't satisfy your transformation requirements, you can use the transform transformer with a custom callback.

@jsonclassclass User:    username: str = types.str.tolower.required    password: str = types.writeonly.str.length(8, 16).transform(salt).required

Eager Validation

In the previous example, the password is validated against length(8, 16) on initialization stage. This is because when salt is performed, the value wouldn't be within the length range anymore. This technic in JSONClasses is called Eager Validation.

Uploader Callback

The transform modifier has a syntax sugar named uploader. This provides more readability when you are uploading multipart form data network input. In this case, your transform callback should take a file as it's argument and return an uploaded url.

@jsonclassclass Article:    title: str    content: str    cover: str = types.uploader(s3_uploader).str.url.required