list of dicts

[lunne]

hi,
I have not found a way to have a list of dicts and validate it.

this is the config

cars:
  - manufacturer: volvo
    color: red
    modell: typec
  - manufacturer: toyota
    color: blue
    modell: typeb
  - manufacturer: volvo
    color: green
    modell: typea

example of not working validation:

cars: [
    {
      "manufacturer": confuse.String(default=""),
      "color": confuse.String(default=""),
      "modell": confuse.String(default="")
    }
  ]
}

in the end i just validated it by:
cars: list

but when i run config.dump() i get back the config in yaml but the list as an json/dict

something: value
something2: value
cars:  [{"manufacturer":"volvo","color":"red","modell":"typec"},{"manufacturer":"toyota","color":"blue","modell":"typeb"},{"manufacturer":"volvo","color":"green","modell":"typea"}]

[sampsyo]

It's true; I don't think we currently have a template like that. But Confuse is extendable, so you might take inspiration from the current templates to write something like that! See MappingTemplate for inspiration:
https://github.com/sampsyo/confuse/blob/f6e0981ddee1828f59734f4ccca11b5cc17ecbec/confuse.py#L1159-L1183

[pupkinsen]

It's true; I don't think we currently have a template like that. But Confuse is extendable, so you might take inspiration from the current templates to write something like that! See MappingTemplate for inspiration:

Hi!

I was having this exact issue, so I've implemented a template to represent a list of similar items. Basically it takes a list as the input and uses the first item on the list as a template to validate against.
I don't know, though, how to integrate it into the as_template function. If I understand correctly, right now lists in a template describe OneOf behaviour. It seems logical to me that a list should represent a list but I'm worried that if I simply change the existing functionality, something may break.