Login and get codingPydantic is an awesome library to do
data validation and settings management using python type annotations.
FastAPI is a heavy user of it so let's learn it now! :)
If you are new to typing / type annotations, maybe you want to complete the first 3 Bites of this learning path first, and/or read our article series.
In this Bite you are going to define your first Pydantic
Food
model.A model is a class with one or more (typed) attributes. To get all Pydantic's goodness we'll need to subclass Pydantic's
BaseModel
class, Pydantic's homepage shows you how and it's probably enough detail to solve this Bite.This is the
Food
model you'll define now and use in upcoming Bites. Our tests will use and test it.
Attribute Type Example id int 1 name str oatmeal serving_size str 100 grams kcal_per_serving * int 336 protein_grams float 13.2 fibre_grams float 10.1
* kcal = calories**
fibre_grams
is an optional value which defaults to 0.We'll come back to Pydantic in a later Bite to define two more models to track food intake for a user day by day. For we won't overload you with object relationships that multiple models inevitably introduce. Step by step!
In the following Bites we'll use this Pydantic model to build the API's CRUD (create-read-update-delete) actions around it.
Have fun with Pydantic!
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