Enum Support

[collerek]

Enum Support

[collerek]

Ah, yeah forgot about the schema, will check how to add this info with choices and if/how support enum field. Thanks for the idea!

[collerek]

Added in 0.9.1 with #93

As for now choices appear in schema and in OpenApi schema - it's easier than defining all variants of Enums (depending on the field type) and it's more intuitive to use in my opinion.

You can always use Enum and pass it to choices as you already described. Updated the docs in this regard.

choices use the same schema options as actual Enum so should be intuitive and easy to use by API consumers in fastapi.

[collerek]

Actually it's the other way around. It's used in pydantic only, but since you cannot set the value on ormar model you cannot save it in database through ormar.

Choices adds pydantic validator to the model and that's why it should work with fastapi too (don't remember if tested this specifically).

[jbertman]

AFAICT, I don't see the enum options in FastAPI's OpenAPI spec when I provide a choices list. The choices validator does fire after submitting a payload. It's also possible I'm just using it wrong - do you happen to have a working case with FastAPI?

Making use of Pydantic enums fed to FastAPI does a good job of informing the frontend of available options. So it would be really great to have this as feature.