Protobuf like client generation for python
Any plans to generate typed python client code or other languages? Right now I am manually generating pydantic objects (python equivalent to zod), client object using the convex python library. Any plans to transpile the Convex TS project to generate python client or other language syntax.
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Thank you!
Yes! Today you need to do what you're doing from the output of
npx convex function-spec, but the intentino of that export is to support code generation in many languages.Today this woudl be added to conve-helpers, where typescript and openAPI code generators live today https://github.com/get-convex/convex-helpers/blob/main/packages/convex-helpers/README.md#typescript-api-generation
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A collection of useful code to complement the official packages. - get-convex/convex-helpers
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If you wanted to contribute a pydantic object generation to convex-helpers I think it'd be very welcome! Or if you could publish it as its own thing as a Python package.
@ballingt update here: i was playing with this and realized that the objects created with pydantic using https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/integrations/datamodel_code_generator/ was too painful for now we are hand rolling the objects till there is a better and cleaner way to make the objects without the bizarre naming convention it makes. (the juice is not worth the squeeze for us).
datamodel-code-generator - Pydantic
Data validation using Python type hints
yeah if I were doing this I think it'd be something that spits out code by walking the function spec, all hand-rolled
@Sri @ballingt I'm facing the same decision. Was the pain just from the odd naming conventions or something else? Did you end up keeping the hand-rolled solution?