#29522: Serializers are hard to modify
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Reporter: Levi Cameron | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Core (Serialization) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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**Use case**
Three times now I've had need to modify the ORM serializers for project
use. In every case I've had to replicate large parts (if not all) of
`django.core.serializers.base` in order to change 1 or 2 lines because
certain calls to functions in `django.core.serializers.base` form the
serializers are hardcoded.
* Changing JSON serialization to output in alphabetical order (so that
`dumpdata` doesn't reorder every field each time you run it)
* Changing deserialization to use `_base_manager` instead of
`_default_manager` (due to extra constraints on a custom manager)
* Implementing fixes for #7202, #7350 before they were merged
**Proposal**
I propose that instead of calling the following functions directly, the
serializer classes are modified to call an instance method of the same
name that then calls the existing module-level functions. This would allow
the ability to more easily override just one aspect of serializer
functionality without having to replicate large swathes of code.
I am not proposing to move these functions into the python serializer
class directly because this may break compatibility with existing code
that depends on the existing functions.
* `django.core.serializers.base.build_instance`
* `django.core.serializers.base.deserializer_m2m_values`
* `django.core.serializers.base.deserializer_fk_values`
* `django.core.serializers.python._get_model` (given that this is already
an internal function, implementation can be pushed into the class
directly)
(It might also be nice if the `json` and `pyyaml` classes could also have
`PythonDeserializer` be made a class attribute but that would involve
turning the `Deserializer` function into a class and is not nearly as much
code to override these as the functions above)
If this sounds acceptable, I will submit a patch.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29522>
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