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Flask-JsonSchema

JSON request validation for Flask applications.

Place schemas in the specified JSONSCHEMA_DIR.

import os

from flask import Flask, request
from flask_jsonschema import JsonSchema, ValidationError

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['JSONSCHEMA_DIR'] = os.path.join(app.root_path, 'schemas')

jsonschema = JsonSchema(app)

@app.errorhandler(ValidationError)
def on_validation_error(e):
    return "error"

@app.route('/books', methods=['POST'])
@jsonschema.validate('books', 'create')
def create_book():
    # create the book
    return 'success'

The schema for the example above should be named books.json and should reside in the configured folder. It should look like so:

{
  "create": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "title": {},
      "author": {}
    },
    "required": ["title", "author"]
  },
  "update": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "title": {},
      "author": {}
    }
  }
}

Notice the top level action names. Flask-JsonSchema supports one "path" level so that you can organize related schemas in one file. If you do not wish to use this feature you can simply use one schema per file and remove the second parameter to the @jsonschema.validate call.

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