MVP validation script for API responses

valudate_api_response.py

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+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import requests
+from response_builder.v1.models.base import RootModel
+
+ENDPOINTS_ROOT = "api/endpoints/v1"
+
+
+def validate_voting_information(postcode):
+    url = f"http://localhost:8000/api/v1/postcode/{postcode}/"
+
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        data = response.json()
+    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+        print(f"Request failed: {e}")
+        return
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
+        print(f"Failed to decode JSON: {e}")
+        return
+    print(data)
+    print(RootModel.validate(data))
+
+
+def main():
+    endpoints = {
+        path.name: path
+        for path in Path(ENDPOINTS_ROOT).glob("*")
+        if path.is_dir() and not path.name.startswith("_")
+    }
+
+    # Set up command line argument parsing
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Fetch and validate JSON data from an endpoint. "
+        "Needs local API to be running in a different process."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--endpoint",
+        type=str,
+        help="The API endpoint to query",
+        choices=endpoints,
+        required=True,
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--postcode",
+        type=str,
+        help="The postcode to use in the query",
+        required=True,
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.endpoint == "voting_information":
+        validate_voting_information(args.postcode)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()