You may want to take a look at FastAPI[1], it already does more or less what you ask for.
There is no need for it to be part of the Python core, it's fine as it is as a package. [1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 17:39, Vaideeswaran Ganesan <vaid...@gmail.com> wrote: > OpenAPI (https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html) is an emerging > standard for defining RESTful interfaces. > OpenAPI is supported by swagger - which provides tools to convert an > OpenAPI spec into python code (for both backend as well as client). > > The proposition I have is to make OpenAPI native to python. Essentially, > this involves some of the following: > 1. OpenAPI provides definitions of objects, arrays, structures, primitive > types, collections etc. > 2. OpenAPI supports object creation (HTTPS POST), object modification > (PUT), object deletion (DELETE) and object retrieval (GET). > 3. OpenAPI also supports operations for collections (add to collection, > remove from collection and modify collection) > 4. OpenAPI also supports methods and allows parameters to be passed to > these APIs. > > The Native Python implementation would load in OpenAPI specification and > provide native Python experience as follows: > 1. Primitive types are mapped to python primitive types > 2. Objects and structures are treated as classes or dicts wrapped. The > field names in the Spec are accessible. > 3. Arrays and Collections are mapped to python lists. > 4. URLs are converted into object structure. > 5. Python inspection methods (__getattr__, __setattr__, __new__, __del__ > and others) of this model is changed to manipulate the fetched objects > dynamically > > Parts of this implementations are found in various places : sushy > (OpenStack) etc. > However, having a more organized approach would make life easier. > > Swagger has a tool that can generate the code. But this means that every > time a specification changes you need to ship a new python library. > The methodology presented not require any addition python libraries - the > tool can download from the REST end point. > > By making OpenAPI native to python, we would avoid cumbersome handling of > request codes etc. and make it as you we are accessing native objects. > I can provide more details and a reference implementation I am working on. > > Wanted to know if this is worthy to be submitted as PEP! > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5DBYKAEXM2Z3UQZGORXMBQTBN22RQPLT/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro Gambit Research "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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