Feature: add group attributes for parameter definitions #1507
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It is a proposal with a working prototype for a group attributes feature. If it makes sense then I will continue working on this PR. Your feedback is welcome.
I was looking into this issue (#1482) recently. I think the presented use case is common for complex APIs schemas. Currently, if I want to apply the same validator (or the same type) for a several endpoint attributes, then I have to define it for every parameter.
What if we introduce a way of defining common parameter settings? Something like Rails conditional validations.
For example, this parameters definition:
can be replaced with
It is also possible to extract group attributes into a class method and use it instead of default params in your code. It should provide the solution for the problem from #1482.
/cc @dblock