JSON Schema Validation is a nice way to bring unity between server-side and client-side validation rules, and Python makes it better.

1. Unified JSON Schema
Validation
...in Python
...for the web
...and cats

2. Herman Schaaf
@ironzeb

3. {
"name": "Ringo",
"age": 1,
"loves": ["bananas", "pancakes"]
"picture": "http://imgur.com/..."
}

6. Decanter Web Framework
https://github.com/gengo/decanter
- Based on Bottle
- JSON Schema Validation built-in

8. https://github.com/hermanschaaf/catvalidate

9. https://github.com/hermanschaaf/catvalidate

10. Python is a great fit for this
- DRY
- Custom fields
- Easy Internationalization (i18n)
- Dictionaries look almost like JSON already
...and same validation on frontend as easy as
json.dumps!

11. Thanks
JSON Schema
http://json-schema.org/
Decanter
https://github.com/gengo/decanter
Cat Validate https://github.
com/hermanschaaf/catvalidate