pydantic-yaml-parser
Install
pip install pydantic_yaml_parser
Background & Usage
1. Loading YAML into Pydantic models
To load YAML into a Pydantic model, you have to first convert the YAML
string to a dict. For example, given the below yaml file:
yaml_string="""
setting_1: Hello
setting_2:
- kind: name
sublist:
- first
- second
"""
You might define a Pydantic model to represent it like this:
from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing import List
class Setting2(BaseModel):
kind: str
sublist: List
class Test(BaseModel):
setting_1: str
setting_2: List[Setting2]
You can load the yaml file into a dict, and into the Pydantic model like
so using pyyaml:
import yaml
yml_dict = yaml.safe_load(yaml_string)
Test.parse_obj(yml_dict)
Test(setting_1='Hello', setting_2=[Setting2(kind='name', sublist=['first', 'second'])])
2. The Pydantic validation error message
However, let’s say there is an error in your yaml file such that you
accidentally set sublist
to false
, instead of setting sublist
to
list
type, you will get an error message that looks like this:
yaml_string="""
setting_1: ok
setting_2:
- kind: name
sublist: false
"""
yaml_dict_error = yaml.safe_load(yaml_string)
Test.parse_obj(yaml_dict_error)
ValidationError: 1 validation error for Test
setting_2 -> 0 -> sublist
value is not a valid list (type=type_error.list)
This error message is a bit confusing, especially for those with no
prior experience with pydantic!
3. Human readable error messages with pydantic_yaml_parser
When you use pydantic_yaml_parser
you get an error message that is
much clearer:
from pydantic_yaml_parser.yaml import YamlModel
class Test(YamlModel):
setting_1: str
setting_2: List[Setting2]
Test.from_dict(yaml_dict_error)
ValueError: Configuration error(s) for YAML:
- value is not a valid list: `sublist` for element 0 in the list for `setting_2`
Further Reading
For more examples of error validation see these
docs.