Is there any provision to pickle spec

[jugaadi]

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Hi @jugaadi

Can you provide more details on the topic. Which kind of pickle spec provision in openapi-core you looking for?

If you need to support serializing / deserializng Python objects via something like,

components:
  schemas:
    PickleData:
      type: "string"
      format: "pickle"

it in theory possible by providing custom formatter to request / response validator.

But it may lead into a problems if your OpenAPI schema will be shared with other services, which don't know about given pickle format.

With that in mind, I'd suggest you to do pickle/unpickle by yourself and use binary strings for those data,

components:
  schemas:
    BinaryData:
      type: "string"
      format: "binary"

More about media types from OpenAPI docs

[jugaadi]

Thanks @playpauseandstop for the response. I tried pickle'ing the result of openapi_core.create_spec() without any success.

My primary motive is to pickle the entire spec to reduce the time taken to parse the openapi spec(json).

[playpauseandstop]

Ouch @jugaadi, I've thought about completely different thing 😄

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Not sure about your implementation details, but what about instantiating spec once at app startup and then reuse that instance at runtime?

[jugaadi]

Not sure about your implementation details, but what about instantiating spec once at app startup and then reuse that instance at runtime?

That's how we are currently handling it.