Hi all, I'm trying to validate JSON data with Colander, and have a little trouble finding the right way to support arbitrary key names.
Suppose I have phone numbers like in the example schema: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/basics.html#defining-a-colander-schema { 'phones':[{'location':'home', 'number':'555-1212'}, {'location':'work', 'number':'555-8989'},], } How would I best go about validating custom fields, like for example: { 'phones':[{'location':'home', 'number':'555-1212', 'type':'landline'}, {'provider':'telekom', 'number':'555-8989'},], } I want the user to be able to add arbitrary fields to the phone numbers. At the moment, I solved it like this (using a sequence of "fieldname", "value" pairs): } 'phones':[{'number':'555-1212', fields=[{'fieldname':'provider', 'value':'telekom'}, {'fieldname':'type', 'value':'landline'],}], } Which works, but I think it would be much nicer to be able to just use {"provider":"telekom"}. Is this possible, and how would you validate data like this with Colander? I could just choose to not validate the fields, but I would prefer if I could still make sure that the value for a dynamic field is a string etc. Thanks in advance, Jesaja Everling -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
