History

1.10.0 (UNRELEASED)

  • Add PEP 563 (string annotations) support for dataclasses. (#195)

  • Fix handling of dictionaries with string Enum keys for bson, orjson, and tomlkit.

  • Rename the cattr.gen.make_dict_unstructure_fn.omit_if_default parameter to _cattrs_omit_if_default, for consistency. The omit_if_default parameters to GenConverter and override are unchanged.

  • Following the changes in attrs 21.3.0, add a cattrs package mirroring the existing cattr package. Both package names may be used as desired, and the cattr package isn’t going away.

1.9.0 (2021-12-06)

  • Python 3.10 support, including support for the new union syntax (A | B vs Union[A, B]).

  • The GenConverter can now properly structure generic classes with generic collection fields. (#149)

  • omit=True now also affects generated structuring functions. (#166)

  • cattr.gen.{make_dict_structure_fn, make_dict_unstructure_fn} now resolve type annotations automatically when PEP 563 is used. (#169)

  • Protocols are now unstructured as their runtime types. (#177)

  • Fix an issue generating structuring functions with renaming and _cattrs_forbid_extra_keys=True. (#190)

1.8.0 (2021-08-13)

  • Fix GenConverter mapping structuring for unannotated dicts on Python 3.8. (#151)

  • The source code for generated un/structuring functions is stored in the linecache cache, which enables more informative stack traces when un/structuring errors happen using the GenConverter. This behavior can optionally be disabled to save memory.

  • Support using the attr converter callback during structure. By default, this is a method of last resort, but it can be elevated to the default by setting prefer_attrib_converters=True on Converter or GenConverter. (#138)

  • Fix structuring recursive classes. (#159)

  • Converters now support un/structuring hook factories. This is the most powerful and complex venue for customizing un/structuring. This had previously been an internal feature.

  • The Common Usage Examples documentation page now has a section on advanced hook factory usage.

  • cattr.override now supports the omit parameter, which makes cattrs skip the atribute entirely when unstructuring.

  • The cattr.preconf.bson module is now tested against the bson module bundled with the pymongo package, because that package is much more popular than the standalone PyPI bson package.

1.7.1 (2021-05-28)

  • Literal s are not supported on Python 3.9.0 (supported on 3.9.1 and later), so we skip importing them there. (#150)

1.7.0 (2021-05-26)

  • cattr.global_converter (which provides cattr.unstructure, cattr.structure etc.) is now an instance of cattr.GenConverter.

  • Literal s are now supported and validated when structuring.

  • Fix dependency metadata information for attrs. (#147)

  • Fix GenConverter mapping structuring for unannotated dicts. (#148)

1.6.0 (2021-04-28)

  • cattrs now uses Poetry.

  • GenConverter mapping structuring is now ~25% faster, and unstructuring heterogenous tuples is significantly faster.

  • Add cattr.preconf. This package contains modules for making converters for particular serialization libraries. We currently support the standard library json, and third-party ujson, orjson, msgpack, bson, pyyaml and tomlkit libraries.

1.5.0 (2021-04-15)

  • Fix an issue with GenConverter unstructuring attrs classes and dataclasses with generic fields. (#65)

  • GenConverter has support for easy overriding of collection unstructuring types (for example, unstructure all sets to lists) through its unstruct_collection_overrides argument. (#137)

  • Unstructuring mappings with GenConverter is significantly faster.

  • GenConverter supports strict handling of unexpected dictionary keys through its forbid_extra_keys argument. (#142)

1.4.0 (2021-03-21)

  • Fix an issue with GenConverter un/structuring hooks when a function hook is registered after the converter has already been used.

  • Add support for collections.abc.{Sequence, MutableSequence, Set, MutableSet}. These should be used on 3.9+ instead of their typing alternatives, which are deprecated. (#128)

  • The GenConverter will unstructure iterables (list[T], tuple[T, ...], set[T]) using their type argument instead of the runtime class if its elements, if possible. These unstructuring operations are up to 40% faster. (#129)

  • Flesh out Converter and GenConverter initializer type annotations. (#131)

  • Add support for typing.Annotated on Python 3.9+. cattrs will use the first annotation present. cattrs specific annotations may be added in the future. (#127)

  • Add support for dataclasses. (#43)

1.3.0 (2021-02-25)

  • cattrs now has a benchmark suite to help make and keep cattrs the fastest it can be. The instructions on using it can be found under the Benchmarking <https://cattrs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/benchmarking.html> section in the docs. (#123)

  • Fix an issue unstructuring tuples of non-primitives. (#125)

  • cattrs now calls attr.resolve_types on attrs classes when registering un/structuring hooks.

  • GenConverter structuring and unstructuring of attrs classes is significantly faster.

1.2.0 (2021-01-31)

  • converter.unstructure now supports an optional parameter, unstructure_as, which can be used to unstructure something as a different type. Useful for unions.

  • Improve support for union un/structuring hooks. Flesh out docs for advanced union handling. (#115)

  • Fix GenConverter behavior with inheritance hierarchies of attrs classes. (#117) (#116)

  • Refactor GenConverter.un/structure_attrs_fromdict into GenConverter.gen_un/structure_attrs_fromdict to allow calling back to Converter.un/structure_attrs_fromdict without sideeffects. (#118)

1.1.2 (2020-11-29)

  • The default disambiguator will not consider non-required fields any more. (#108)

  • Fix a couple type annotations. (#107) (#105)

  • Fix a GenConverter unstructuring issue and tests.

1.1.1 (2020-10-30)

  • Add metadata for supported Python versions. (#103)

1.1.0 (2020-10-29)

  • Python 2, 3.5 and 3.6 support removal. If you need it, use a version below 1.1.0.

  • Python 3.9 support, including support for built-in generic types (list[int] vs typing.List[int]).

  • cattrs now includes functions to generate specialized structuring and unstructuring hooks. Specialized hooks are faster and support overrides (omit_if_default and rename). See the cattr.gen module.

  • cattrs now includes a converter variant, cattr.GenConverter, that automatically generates specialized hooks for attrs classes. This converter will become the default in the future.

  • Generating specialized structuring hooks now invokes attr.resolve_types on a class if the class makes use of the new PEP 563 annotations.

  • cattrs now depends on attrs >= 20.1.0, because of attr.resolve_types.

  • Specialized hooks now support generic classes. The default converter will generate and use a specialized hook upon encountering a generic class.

1.0.0 (2019-12-27)

  • attrs classes with private attributes can now be structured by default.

  • Structuring from dictionaries is now more lenient: extra keys are ignored.

  • cattrs has improved type annotations for use with Mypy.

  • Unstructuring sets and frozensets now works properly.

0.9.1 (2019-10-26)

  • Python 3.8 support.

0.9.0 (2018-07-22)

  • Python 3.7 support.

0.8.1 (2018-06-19)

  • The disambiguation function generator now supports unions of attrs classes and NoneType.

0.8.0 (2018-04-14)

  • Distribution fix.

0.7.0 (2018-04-12)

  • Removed the undocumented Converter.unstruct_strat property setter.

  • Removed the ability to set the Converter.structure_attrs instance field.
    As an alternative, create a new Converter::

    .. code-block:: python

    >>> converter = cattr.Converter(unstruct_strat=cattr.UnstructureStrategy.AS_TUPLE)

  • Some micro-optimizations were applied; a structure(unstructure(obj)) roundtrip is now up to 2 times faster.

0.6.0 (2017-12-25)

  • Packaging fixes. (#17)

0.5.0 (2017-12-11)

  • structure/unstructure now supports using functions as well as classes for deciding the appropriate function.

  • added Converter.register_structure_hook_func, to register a function instead of a class for determining handler func.

  • added Converter.register_unstructure_hook_func, to register a function instead of a class for determining handler func.

  • vendored typing is no longer needed, nor provided.

  • Attributes with default values can now be structured if they are missing in the input. (#15)

  • Optional attributes can no longer be structured if they are missing in the input.
    In other words, this no longer works:

    .. code-block:: python

    @attr.s
    class A:
    a: Optional[int] = attr.ib()

    >>> cattr.structure({}, A)

  • cattr.typed removed since the functionality is now present in attrs itself. Replace instances of cattr.typed(type) with attr.ib(type=type).

0.4.0 (2017-07-17)

  • Converter.loads is now Converter.structure, and Converter.dumps is now Converter.unstructure.

  • Python 2.7 is supported.

  • Moved cattr.typing to cattr.vendor.typing to support different vendored versions of typing.py for Python 2 and Python 3.

  • Type metadata can be added to attrs classes using cattr.typed.

0.3.0 (2017-03-18)

  • Python 3.4 is no longer supported.

  • Introduced cattr.typing for use with Python versions 3.5.2 and 3.6.0.

  • Minor changes to work with newer versions of typing.

    • Bare Optionals are not supported any more (use Optional[Any]).

  • Attempting to load unrecognized classes will result in a ValueError, and a helpful message to register a loads hook.

  • Loading attrs classes is now documented.

  • The global converter is now documented.

  • cattr.loads_attrs_fromtuple and cattr.loads_attrs_fromdict are now exposed.

0.2.0 (2016-10-02)

  • Tests and documentation.

0.1.0 (2016-08-13)

  • First release on PyPI.