serializable 0.0.2

Base class with serialization helpers for user-defined Python objects

Base class with serialization methods for user-defined Python objects

Usage

Classes which inherit from Serializable are given default implementations of to_json, from_json, __reduce__ (for pickling), and other serialization helpers.

Your derived class must:

• provide a user-defined to_dict() method which returns a dictionary whose keys are strings and whose values are all primitive serializable types (list, dict, int, str, &c).

• The keys of the dictionary returned by to_dict() must match the arguments to the __init__ of your class.

Limitations

• Nested objects must also inherit from Serializable and must be manually converted to serializable types in to_dict() and then reconstructed by overriding the class method _reconstruct_nested_objects.

• Functions defined at the top level of a module can be converted to primtive types with function_to_serializable_representation, but this helper will fail for methods.