serializable 0.0.4

Base class with serialization helpers for user-defined Python objects

serializable

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.

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

Limitations

• Serializable objects must inherit from Serializable, be tuples or namedtuples, be serializble primitive types such as dict, list, int, float, or str.

• The serialized representation of objects relies on reserved keywords (such as "__name__", and "__class__"), so dictionaries are expect to not contain any keys which begin with two underscores.