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Jonathan Herrera
Jonathan Herrera

Reputation: 6184

Python: Gateway ORM for Models from third party REST APIs

For working with data from a database inside of Python programmes, we generally use Object Relational Mappers, to translate database entries into python objects we can work with, with sqlAlchemy and Django Models probably being the most common and advanced ORMs.

Are there ORMs that do not connect to a database but to a third party (JSON) REST API instead? I would like to have a framework which lets me deal with Python objects to perform CRUD operations on the API. This should have all the well-established standard functionalities of an ORM, including Unit of Work and Lazy Loading. Actually, I would want my python code to be agnostic about whether the model is stored in a database or being fetched from a third party API.

It is hard for me to imagine that such a thing does not yet exist. But I am not able to find it. Maybe I am not knowing the right words to search for it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 843

Answers (1)

MikeMajara
MikeMajara

Reputation: 962

ORMs Frameworks are frameworks that connect to databases. From your description you are talking about a DAO pattern, not about a Framework. This is a common programming pattern in other languages such as Java.

The right words or searches would be:

  • Search for the DAO pattern, what to expect from it and how to code it.
  • Check a couple of links on examples of DAO patterns in python such as this one, or this other one
  • Analyze your specific problem. You might not need all the code other solutions offer you. And you might be better off coding yourself your own class adjusted to your needs.

Remember KISS and DRY.

PS: Different languages use different paradigms, it is a common error to try to extrapolate patterns and coding uses from one language to another. So something that is solved in e.g. Java in a way, might not be the best option for Python. Keep that in mind too.

Upvotes: 3

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