Changelog

0.6 (unreleased)

Note

While unreleased, the changelog of lima 0.6 is itself subject to change.

0.5 (2015-05-11)

  • Support getting field values from an object’s items by providing the key argument to a Field constructor.
  • Add a fields.Decimal field type that packs decimal.Decimal values into strings.
  • Move Tests into directory /test.
  • Remove deprecated field fields.Nested. Use fields.Embed instead.

0.4 (2015-01-15)

  • Breaking Change: The Schema.dump method no longer supports the many argument. This makes many consistent with ordered and simplifies internals.

  • Improve support for serializing linked data:

    • Add new field type fields.Reference for references to linked objects.
    • Add new name for fields.Nested: fields.Embed. Deprecate fields.Nested in favour of fields.Embed.

  • Add read-only properties many and ordered for schema objects.

  • Don’t generate docs for internal modules any more - those did clutter up the documentation of the actual API (the docstrings remain though).

  • Implement lazy evaluation and caching of some attributes (affects methods: Schema.dump, Embed.pack and Reference.pack). This means stuff is only evaluated if and when really needed, but it also means:

    • The very first time data is dumped/packed by a Schema/Embed/Reference object, there will be a tiny delay. Keep objects around to mitigate this effect.
    • Some errors might surface at a later time. lima mentions this when raising exceptions though.

  • Allow quotes in field names.

  • Small speed improvement when serializing collections.

  • Remove deprecated name fields.type_mapping. Use fields.TYPE_MAPPING instead.

  • Overall cleanup, improvements and bug fixes.

0.3.1 (2014-11-11)

  • Fix inconsistency in changelog.

0.3 (2014-11-11)

  • Support dumping of OrderedDict objects by providing ordered=True to a Schema constructor.

  • Implement field name mangling: at__foo becomes @foo for fields specified as class attributes.

  • Support constant field values by providing val to a Field constructor.

  • Add new ways to specify a schema’s fields:

    • Add support for __lima_args__['only'] on schema definition
    • Add include parameter to Schema constructor

    This makes specifying fields on schema definition (__lima_args__ - options include, exclude, only) consistent with specifying fields on schema instantiation (schema constructor args include, exclude, only).

  • Deprecate fields.type_mapping in favour of fields.TYPE_MAPPING.

  • Improve the documentation.

  • Overall cleanup, improvements and bug fixes.

0.2.2 (2014-10-27)

  • Fix issue with package not uploading to PYPI
  • Fix tiny issues with illustration

0.2.1 (2014-10-27)

  • Fix issues with docs not building on readthedocs.org

0.2 (2014-10-27)

  • Initial release