AliasStrategy 🍩

Author: Sibyx

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## 1.0.0-rc.10 : 02.08.2024
 
+- **Added**: `AliasStrategy` for overriding property name on target object during `setattr()`
+- **Changed**:`field_strategy` now can be also an instance of `BaseStrategy`
 - **Fixed**: Fixed calling population methods when declared in form
 
 ## 1.0.0-rc.9 : 24.03.2023

django_api_forms/forms.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
 
 from .exceptions import UnsupportedMediaType, ApiFormException, DetailValidationError
+from .population_strategies import BaseStrategy
 from .settings import Settings
 from .utils import resolve_from_path
 
@@ -197,7 +198,10 @@ def populate(self, obj, exclude: List[str] = None):
             if hasattr(self, f'populate_{key}'):
                 self.cleaned_data[key] = getattr(self, f'populate_{key}')(obj, self.cleaned_data[key])
 
-            strategy()(field, obj, key, self.cleaned_data[key])
+            if isinstance(strategy, BaseStrategy):
+                strategy(field, obj, key, self.cleaned_data[key])
+            else:
+                strategy()(field, obj, key, self.cleaned_data[key])
 
         return obj
 

django_api_forms/population_strategies.py

@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ def __call__(self, field, obj, key: str, value):
         setattr(obj, key, value)
 
 
+class AliasStrategy(BaseStrategy):
+    def __init__(self, property_name: str):
+        self._property_name = property_name
+
+    def __call__(self, field, obj, key: str, value):
+        setattr(obj, self._property_name, value)
+
+
 class IgnoreStrategy(BaseStrategy):
     def __call__(self, field, obj, key: str, value):
         pass