Merge pull request #89 from cwacek/feature/support-top-level-arrays

Fix #88. Properly construct wrappers for top level array constraints

python_jsonschema_objects/wrapper_types.py

@@ -275,10 +275,16 @@ def create(name, item_constraint=None, **addl_constraints):
 
                     item_constraint = classbuilder.TypeProxy(type_array)
 
+                elif isdict and item_constraint.get('type') == 'object':
+                    """ We need to create a ProtocolBase object for this anonymous definition"""
+                    uri = "{0}_{1}".format(name, "<anonymous_list_type>")
+                    item_constraint = klassbuilder.construct(
+                        uri, item_constraint)
+
         props['__itemtype__'] = item_constraint
 
         props.update(addl_constraints)
 
         validator = type(str(name), (ArrayWrapper,), props)
 
-        return validator
+        return validator

test/test_regression_88.py

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import pytest
+import json
+
+import python_jsonschema_objects as pjs
+
+
+def test_nested_arrays_work_fine():
+    schema = {
+        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema",
+        "title": "Example1",
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+            "name": {
+                "type": "array",
+                "items": {
+                    "type": "object",
+                    "properties": {
+                        "name": {"type": "string"}
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    ns1 = pjs.ObjectBuilder(schema).build_classes()
+    j1 = ns1.Example1.from_json(json.dumps({'name': [{'value':'foo'}, {'value':'bar'}]}))
+    assert j1.name[0].value == 'foo'
+    assert j1.name[1].value == 'bar'
+
+
+def test_top_level_arrays_are_converted_to_objects_properly():
+    schema = {
+        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema",
+        "title": "Example2",
+        "type": "array",
+        "items": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "name": {"type": "string"}
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    ns2 = pjs.ObjectBuilder(schema).build_classes()
+    j2 = ns2.Example2.from_json(json.dumps([{'name': 'foo'}, {'name': 'bar'}]))
+    assert not isinstance(j2[0], dict)  # Out[173]: {'name': 'foo'}
+    assert j2[0].name == 'foo'
+    assert j2[1].name == 'bar'
+