Add validation logic to use the "format" parameter

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Add validation logic to use the "format" parameter

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 4 comments

Format is an additional parameter that can be added to string and numbe types: https://swagger.io/specification/?sbsearch=format. Some of the values that can be given to format could be used to run additional validation. For example:

type: string
format: date-time

This could be validated using datetime.

type: number
format: float

This could be validated as being a float or integer, etc.

Answer 1 · 2021-01-21T22:27:19.000Z

So it looks to me like this would be the full list of formats to consider:

date-time: validate as ISO 8601 datetime
date: ditto
byte
binary, which can be a series of octets? 10011101.11100010.10101110.11101000

And the password one is interesting. Do we hide the output from error messages for a password type?

There isn't anything to consider for signed 32 bit int vs 64 bit in python is there?

Answer 2 · 2021-01-23T19:28:52.000Z

there is also the float format as mentioned in the OP.

for 32 and 64 bit signed ints we do not need to do anything i think.

Answer 3 · 2021-01-23T22:05:07.000Z

So a double is a float with exactly 2 decimals, but what is a float in this case? Any precision except 2 decimals?

Answer 4 · 2021-01-24T18:41:12.000Z

its a good question TBH, there are various edge cases here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/736043/checking-if-a-string-can-be-converted-to-float-in-python