pydantic-i18n is an extension to support an i18n for the pydantic error messages.
Documentation: https://pydantic-i18n.boardpack.org
Source Code: https://github.com/boardpack/pydantic-i18n
Requirements
Python 3.6+
pydantic-i18n has the next dependencies:
Installation
$ pip install pydantic-i18n
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First steps
To start to work with pydantic-i18n, you can just create a dictionary (or create any needed translations storage and then convert it into dictionary) and pass to the main PydanticI18n class.
To translate messages, you need to pass result of exception.errors() call to the translate method:
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n
translations = {
"en_US": {
"field required": "field required",
},
"de_DE": {
"field required": "Feld erforderlich",
},
}
tr = PydanticI18n(translations)
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
try:
User()
except ValidationError as e:
translated_errors = tr.translate(e.errors(), locale="de_DE")
print(translated_errors)
# [
# {
# 'loc': ('name',),
# 'msg': 'Feld erforderlich',
# 'type': 'value_error.missing'
# }
# ]
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
In the next chapters, you will see current available loaders and how to implement your own loader.
Usage with FastAPI
Here is a simple example usage with FastAPI.
Create it
Let's create a tr.py file:
from fastapi import Request
from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from starlette.status import HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n
__all__ = ["get_locale", "validation_exception_handler"]
DEFAULT_LOCALE = "en_US"
translations = {
"en_US": {
"field required": "field required",
},
"de_DE": {
"field required": "Feld erforderlich",
},
}
tr = PydanticI18n(translations)
def get_locale(locale: str = DEFAULT_LOCALE) -> str:
return locale
async def validation_exception_handler(
request: Request, exc: RequestValidationError
) -> JSONResponse:
current_locale = request.query_params.get("locale", DEFAULT_LOCALE)
return JSONResponse(
status_code=HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY,
content={"detail": tr.translate(exc.errors(), current_locale)},
)
11-20: As you see, we selected the simplest variant to store translations, you can use any that you need.
23-24: To not include locale query parameter into every handler, we created a simple function get_locale, which we will include as a global dependency with Depends.
29-36: An example of overridden function to return translated messages of the validation exception.
Now we are ready to create a FastAPI application:
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
from pydantic import BaseModel
import tr
app = FastAPI(dependencies=[Depends(tr.get_locale)])
app.add_exception_handler(RequestValidationError, tr.validation_exception_handler)
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
@app.post("/user", response_model=User)
def create_user(request: Request, user: User):
pass
8: Add get_locale function as a global dependency.
!!! note If you need to use i18n only for specific part of your application, you can add this get_locale function to the specific APIRouter. More information about APIRouter you can find here.
10: Override default request validation error handler with validation_exception_handler.
Run it
Run the server with:
$ uvicorn main:app --reload
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
INFO: Started reloader process [28720]
INFO: Started server process [28722]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
INFO: Application startup complete.
About the command uvicorn main:app --reload...
The command uvicorn main:app refers to:
main: the filemain.py(the Python "module").app: the object created inside ofmain.pywith the lineapp = FastAPI().--reload: make the server restart after code changes. Only do this for development.
Send it
Open your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs#/default/create_user_user_post.
Send POST-request with empty body and de_DE locale query param via swagger UI or curl:
$ curl -X 'POST' \
'http://127.0.0.1:8000/user?locale=de_DE' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
}'
Check it
As a result, you will get the next response body:
{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"body",
"name"
],
"msg": "Feld erforderlich",
"type": "value_error.missing"
}
]
}
If you don't mention the locale param, English locale will be used by default.
Get current error strings from Pydantic
pydantic-i18n doesn't provide prepared translations of all current error messages from pydantic, but you can use a special class method PydanticI18n.get_pydantic_messages to load original messages in English. By default, it returns a dict object:
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n
print(PydanticI18n.get_pydantic_messages())
# {
# "field required": "field required",
# "extra fields not permitted": "extra fields not permitted",
# "none is not an allowed value": "none is not an allowed value",
# "value is not none": "value is not none",
# "value could not be parsed to a boolean": "value could not be parsed to a boolean",
# "byte type expected": "byte type expected",
# .....
# }
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
You can also choose JSON string or Babel format with output parameter values "json" and "babel":
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n
print(PydanticI18n.get_pydantic_messages(output="json"))
# {
# "field required": "field required",
# "extra fields not permitted": "extra fields not permitted",
# "none is not an allowed value": "none is not an allowed value",
# .....
# }
print(PydanticI18n.get_pydantic_messages(output="babel"))
# msgid "field required"
# msgstr "field required"
#
# msgid "extra fields not permitted"
# msgstr "extra fields not permitted"
#
# msgid "none is not an allowed value"
# msgstr "none is not an allowed value"
# ....
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
Loaders
pydantic-i18n provides a list of loaders to use translations.
DictLoader
DictLoader is the simplest loader and default in PydanticI18n. So you can just pass your translations dictionary without any other preparation steps.
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n
translations = {
"en_US": {
"field required": "field required",
},
"de_DE": {
"field required": "Feld erforderlich",
},
}
tr = PydanticI18n(translations)
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
try:
User()
except ValidationError as e:
translated_errors = tr.translate(e.errors(), locale="de_DE")
print(translated_errors)
# [
# {
# 'loc': ('name',),
# 'msg': 'Feld erforderlich',
# 'type': 'value_error.missing'
# }
# ]
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
JsonLoader
JsonLoader needs to get the path to some directory with the next structure:
|-- translations
|-- en_US.json
|-- de_DE.json
|-- ...
where e.g. en_US.json looks like:
{
"field required": "field required"
}
and de_DE.json:
{
"field required": "Feld erforderlich"
}
Then we can use JsonLoader to load our translations:
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n, JsonLoader
loader = JsonLoader("./translations")
tr = PydanticI18n(loader)
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
try:
User()
except ValidationError as e:
translated_errors = tr.translate(e.errors(), locale="de_DE")
print(translated_errors)
# [
# {
# 'loc': ('name',),
# 'msg': 'Feld erforderlich',
# 'type': 'value_error.missing'
# }
# ]
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
BabelLoader
BabelLoader works in the similar way as JsonLoader. It also needs a translations directory with the next structure:
|-- translations
|-- en_US
|-- LC_MESSAGES
|-- messages.mo
|-- messages.po
|-- de_DE
|-- LC_MESSAGES
|-- messages.mo
|-- messages.po
|-- ...
Information about translations preparation you can find on the Babel docs pages{:target="_blank"} and e.g. from this article{:target="_blank"}.
Here is an example of the BabelLoader usage:
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n, BabelLoader
loader = BabelLoader("./translations")
tr = PydanticI18n(loader)
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
try:
User()
except ValidationError as e:
translated_errors = tr.translate(e.errors(), locale="de")
print(translated_errors)
# [
# {
# 'loc': ('name',),
# 'msg': 'Feld erforderlich',
# 'type': 'value_error.missing'
# }
# ]
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
Write your own loader
If current loaders aren't suitable for you, it's possible to write your own loader and use it with pydantic-i18n. To do it, you need to import BaseLoader and implement the next items:
- property
localesto get a list of locales; - method
get_translationsto get content for the specific locale.
In some cases you will also need to change implementation of the gettext method.
Here is an example of the loader to get translations from CSV files:
|-- translations
|-- en_US.csv
|-- de_DE.csv
|-- ...
en_US.csv content:
field required,field required
de_DE.csv content:
field required,Feld erforderlich
import os
from typing import List, Dict
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from pydantic_i18n import PydanticI18n, BaseLoader
class CsvLoader(BaseLoader):
def __init__(self, directory: str):
self.directory = directory
@property
def locales(self) -> List[str]:
return [
filename[:-4]
for filename in os.listdir(self.directory)
if filename.endswith(".csv")
]
def get_translations(self, locale: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
with open(os.path.join(self.directory, f"{locale}.csv")) as fp:
data = dict(line.strip().split(",") for line in fp)
return data
class User(BaseModel):
name: str
if __name__ == '__main__':
loader = CsvLoader("./translations")
tr = PydanticI18n(loader)
try:
User()
except ValidationError as e:
translated_errors = tr.translate(e.errors(), locale="de")
print(translated_errors)
# [
# {
# 'loc': ('name',),
# 'msg': 'Feld erforderlich',
# 'type': 'value_error.missing'
# }
# ]
(This script is complete, it should run "as is")
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Samuel Colvin and his pydantic library.
Also, thanks to Sebastián Ramírez and his FastAPI project, some scripts and documentation structure and parts were used from there.
License
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
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