This is a Flask Plugin to be used for Validate JSON request data.
This package uses jsonschema to for validation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonschema
jsonschema documentation: https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/index.html
This package provides a flask route decorator to validate json payload.
from flask import Flask,g
from flask_validate_json import validate_json
app = Flask(__name__)
schema = {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'name': {'type': 'string'},
'email': {'type': 'string'},
'password': {'type': 'string'}
},
'required': ['email', 'password']
}
@app.route('/register', methods=['POST'])
@validate_json(schema)
def register():
# if payload is invalid, request will be aborted with error code 400
# if payload is valid it is stored in g.json_data
# do something with your data
# example: user = User().from_dict(g.json_data)