Ability to specify schema and data without a filename

Currently you use the library like this:

import yamale
schema = yamale.make_schema('./schema.yaml')

# Create a Data object
data = yamale.make_data('./data.yaml')

# Validate data against the schema. Throws a ValueError if data is invalid.
yamale.validate(schema, data)

It would be really useful if there was an option to provide the schema and data as Python strings instead - that way the could be loaded from a database or from an incoming HTTP request.

Something like this could work

import yamale

schema = yamale.make_schema(content="""
name: str()
age: int(max=200)
height: num()
awesome: bool()
""")

data = yamale.make_data(content="""
name: Bill
age: 26
height: 6.2
awesome: True
""")

yamale.validate(schema, data)

[mildebrandt]

This enhancement is in version 2.2.0. Thanks!

[blopker]

Hey @simonw, thank you for your contribution. Also, thanks for reminding us we still support Python 2. I’ve made a ticket to address that for our next major version: https://github.com/23andMe/Yamale/issues/106