serializable 0.1.0

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 enabled with default implementations of to_json, from_json, __reduce__ (for pickling), and other serialization helpers. A derived class must either have a member data matching the name of each argument to __init__ or, alternatively, must provide a user-defined to_dict() method which returns a dictionary whose keys match the arguments to __init__.

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 expected to not contain any keys which begin with two underscores.