calamus 0.4.3
calamus is a library built on top of marshmallow to allow (de-)Serialization of Python classes to JSON-LD.
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: <4.0.0,>=3.9.1

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 calamus: JSON-LD Serialization Library for Python
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calamus is a library built on top of marshmallow to allow (de-)Serialization
of Python classes to JSON-LD


Installation
============

calamus releases and development versions are available from `PyPI
<https://pypi.org/project/calamus/>`_. You can install it using any tool that
knows how to handle PyPI packages.

With pip:

::

    $ pip install calamus


Usage
=====

Assuming you have a class like

.. code-block:: python

    class Book:
        def __init__(self, _id, name):
            self._id = _id
            self.name = name

Declare schemes
---------------
You can declare a schema for serialization like

.. code-block:: python

    from calamus import fields
    from calamus.schema import JsonLDSchema

    schema = fields.Namespace("http://schema.org/")

    class BookSchema(JsonLDSchema):
        _id = fields.Id()
        name = fields.String(schema.name)

        class Meta:
            rdf_type = schema.Book
            model = Book

The ``fields.Namespace`` class represents an ontology namespace.

Make sure to set ``rdf_type`` to the RDF triple type you want get and
``model`` to the python class this schema applies to.

Serializing objects ("Dumping")
-------------------------------

You can now easily serialize python classes to JSON-LD

.. code-block:: python

    book = Book(_id="http://example.com/books/1", name="Ilias")
    jsonld_dict = BookSchema().dump(book)
    #{
    #    "@id": "http://example.com/books/1",
    #    "@type": "http://schema.org/Book",
    #    "http://schema.org/name": "Ilias",
    #}

    jsonld_string = BookSchema().dumps(book)
    #'{"@id": "http://example.com/books/1", "http://schema.org/name": "Ilias", "@type": "http://schema.org/Book"}')

Deserializing objects ("Loading")
---------------------------------

You can also easily deserialize JSON-LD to python objects

.. code-block:: python

    data = {
        "@id": "http://example.com/books/1",
        "@type": "http://schema.org/Book",
        "http://schema.org/name": "Ilias",
    }
    book = BookSchema().load(data)
    #<Book(_id="http://example.com/books/1", name="Ilias")>

Validation of properties in a namespace using an OWL ontology
-------------------------------------------------------------

You can validate properties in a python class during serialization using an OWL ontology. The ontology used in the example below doesn't have ``publishedYear`` defined as a property.
::

    class Book:
        def __init__(self, _id, name, author, publishedYear):
            self._id = _id
            self.name = name
            self.author = author
            self.publishedYear = publishedYear

    class BookSchema(JsonLDSchema):
        _id = fields.Id()
        name = fields.String(schema.name)
        author = fields.String(schema.author)
        publishedYear = fields.Integer(schema.publishedYear)

        class Meta:
           rdf_type = schema.Book
           model = Book

    book = Book(id="http://example.com/books/2", name="Outliers", author="Malcolm Gladwell", publishedYear=2008)

    data = {
        "@id": "http://example.com/books/3",
        "@type": "http://schema.org/Book",
        "http://schema.org/name" : "Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban",
        "http://schema.org/author" : "J. K. Rowling",
        "http://schema.org/publishedYear" : 1999
    }

    valid_invalid_dict = BookSchema().validate_properties(
        data,
        "tests/fixtures/book_ontology.owl"
    )
    # The ontology doesn't have a publishedYear property
    # {'valid': {'http://schema.org/author', 'http://schema.org/name'}, 'invalid': {'http://schema.org/publishedYear'}}

    validated_json = BookSchema().validate_properties(book, "tests/fixtures/book_ontology.owl", return_valid_data=True)
    #{'@id': 'http://example.com/books/2', '@type': ['http://schema.org/Book'], 'http://schema.org/name': 'Outliers', 'http://schema.org/author': 'Malcolm Gladwell'}



You can also use this during deserialization.
::

    class Book:
        def __init__(self, _id, name, author):
            self._id = _id
            self.name = name
            self.author = author

    schema = fields.Namespace("http://schema.org/")

    class BookSchema(JsonLDSchema):
        _id = fields.Id()
        name = fields.String(schema.name)
        author = fields.String(schema.author)

        class Meta:
            rdf_type = schema.Book
            model = Book

    data = {
        "@id": "http://example.com/books/1",
        "@type": "http://schema.org/Book",
        "http://schema.org/name": "Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets",
        "http://schema.org/author": "J. K. Rowling",
        "http://schema.org/publishedYear": 1998,
    }

    verified_data = BookSchema().validate_properties(data, "tests/fixtures/book_ontology.owl", return_valid_data=True)

    book_verified = BookSchema().load(verified_data)
    #<Book(_id="http://example.com/books/1", name="Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets", author="J. K. Rowling")>


The function validate_properties has 3 arguments: ``data``, ``ontology`` and ``return_valid_data``.

``data`` can be a Json-LD, a python object of the schema's model class, or a list of either of those.

``ontology`` is a string pointing to the OWL ontology's location (path or URI).

``return_valid_data`` is an optional argument with the default value ``False``. Default behavior is to return dictionary with valid and invalid properties. Setting this to True returns the JSON-LD with only validated properties.

Annotations
-----------

Classes can also be annotated directly with schema information, removing the need to have a separate schema. This
can be done by setting the ``metaclass`` of the model to ``JsonLDAnnotation``.

.. code-block:: python

    import datetime.datetime as dt

    from calamus.schema import JsonLDAnnotation
    import calamus.fields as fields

    schema = fields.Namespace("http://schema.org/")

    class User(metaclass=JsonLDAnnotation):
        _id = fields.Id()
        birth_date = fields.Date(schema.birthDate, default=dt.now)
        name = fields.String(schema.name, default=lambda: "John")

        class Meta:
            rdf_type = schema.Person

    user = User()

    # dumping
    User.schema().dump(user)
    # or
    user.dump()

    # loading
    u = User.schema().load({"_id": "http://example.com/user/1", "name": "Bill", "birth_date": "1970-01-01 00:00"})

Support
=======

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