# fastapi-uuidbase62
`fastapi-uuidbase62` is intended to provide Pydantic and FastAPI functionality that exposes UUID values as
nicely-formatted Stripe-like string values, with validated prefixing. For example, a User UUID identifier of
`"f8711c37-c1d1-4961-ba3c-98cdc5b4fda8"` with a `"user"` prefix becomes `"user_7yNMTpVy8ddRxYKGJqtk7e"`.
## Benefits
Why take this approach?
- users: easy text selection of Stripe-like formatted values (fast double-click or keyboard-based) compared to UUIDs (
try double clicking the samples above!)
- database: using UUIDs in your database is likely much more efficient storage-wise as well as more performant
- prefixing:
- allows for programmatic routing within a microservice architecture
- easier to reason about debug output, logging messages (lower cognitive load/overhead)
## Installation
`fastapi-uuidbase62` installation is much the same as any other Python package.
```commandline
pip install fastapi-uuidbase62
```
### Python Support
Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 are supported and covered by the `tox` test configuration described below.
## Usage
This package provides the ability to define a field on a Pydantic model that auto-serializes a UUID value to
base62 and auto-prefixes a defined label. This serializes a UUID to a prefixed string when rendering a FastAPI
response, and does the reverse when processing an incoming FastAPI request.
In the following example, take note of the following:
- `UUIDBase62ModelMixin` adds a `to_uuidbase62` method to Model to easily convert a UUID or valid base62 prefixed value to a `UUIDBase62` value
- the `con_uuidbase62` function, which defines the autoprefixing and serializing UUID <-> str field
- the `get_validated_uuidbase62_by_model` dependency injection function providing validation/serialization on incoming base62-encoded parameters (path, header, query)
- there is a similar `get_validated_uuidbase62` function that does not rely on a Model class/field
- `UUIDBase62` instance properties
- `uuidbase62_value.uuid`: UUID matching the base62 encoded str
- `uuidbase62_value.base62_str`: non-prefixed base62 string value
- `uuidbase62_value.value`: prefixed base62 string value, same as `str(uuidbase62_value)`
- `uuidbase62_value.prefix`: the prefix used for this `UUIDBase62` instance
```Python
import uuid
from fastapi import FastAPI, Depends
from pydantic import BaseModel
from uuidbase62 import con_uuidbase62, UUIDBase62, UUIDBase62ModelMixin, get_validated_uuidbase62_by_model
app = FastAPI()
class Book(UUIDBase62ModelMixin, BaseModel):
id: con_uuidbase62(prefix="book")
title: str
@app.get("/", response_model=list[Book])
async def get_item_list():
# fake fetching a list of books from the DB, yielding book IDs and titles
return [{
"id": uuid.uuid4(),
"title": "Red Mars",
}]
@app.get("/{item_id}", response_model=Book)
async def get_item(item_id: UUIDBase62 = Depends(get_validated_uuidbase62_by_model(Book, 'id', 'item_id'))):
# fake fetching from the DB based on `item_id`, yielding a book ID and title
return {
"id": uuid.uuid4(),
"title": "Green Mars",
}
@app.post("/", response_model=Book)
async def create_item(item: Book):
book_id = item.id # UUIDBase62 value
book_id.uuid # uuid value
book_id.base62_str # non-prefixed base62 string value
book_id.value # prefixed base62 string value, same as str(book_id)
book_id.prefix # 'book'
return item.dict()
```
## Development
To set up a development environment, it is recommended to create a Python virtual environment, and then install
development requirements. You should probably be using
[`pyenv` to manage your local Python versions](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv):
```commandline
# do this for each supported Python version, all are needed to run complete tests via tox
pyenv install 3.x.x
# in the project directory, make supported Python versions available; first one listed is the default Python
pyenv local 3.10.x 3.7.x 3.8.x 3.9.x 3.11.x
# create Python virtual environment
python -m venv venv
# install development dependencies
./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
```
### Testing
`fastapi-uuidbase62` is easily tested via the [configuration set up with `tox`](./tox.ini), which configures the `tox`
command line tool:
```commandline
# run tox, parallel mode
./venv/bin/tox -p
```
## Contributing
Leverage [Github issues](https://github.com/jaddison/fastapi-uuidbase62/issues), and do consider submitting fixes/improvements via pull requests on Github.