Statham object -> json-serializable dict

[JohnEmhoff]

Is there a way to get a plain ol' python object (i.e., something I can give to json.dumps) if I have a statham object? Apologies if this should be obvious but the only thing I could find in the documentation is something about serializing the schema itself.

[jacksmith15]

Its not something I've included yet, as the main focus is for parsing/validating incoming data that you don't control (there are better solutions for schema which you do control - pydantic is a good example!).

I do see that this could be desirable even in that case however!

A statham Object instance stores its attributes under _dict. All of the other types are json-serialisable, so one could happily do the following:

import json
from statham.schema.elements import Object

class StathamEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, Object):
            return obj._dict
        return super().default(self, obj)

class MyObject(Object):
    foo: str

print(json.dumps(MyObject({"foo": "bar"}), cls=StathamEncoder))

[NfNitLoop]

Adding a vote here for better support for creating objects to match a JSON Schema.

I'm using JSON Schema to have a shared data type across languages. I'd like my Python code to be able to safely create objects of the right shape/type to then serialize for others to use. So if I have a required name parameter, it would be nice if there were an initializer like:

data = Example.create(name="foo")

and maybe

data.validate()
data.to_json()