hey, On 11/30/15 14:35, cescu...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello everyone and thank you for your interest! > > The Peter's code is very similar to what I think the default JSON encoder > should be. > > The advantage of the method that I propose is that you should not care > anymore about which encoder you're going to use even in case of different > class instances. Imagine if you could just do > > json.dumps({[1,2,3], Obj(), [DifferentObj()] }) > >
FWIW, Spyne can to the exact same thing -- i.e. serialize an object given its definition to whatever format you want. (currently xml, json, yaml and msgpack are supported). Here's a json example: >>> from spyne import * >>> from spyne.util.dictdoc import get_object_as_json, get_json_as_object >>> get_object_as_json([1,2,3], Array(Integer)) '[1, 2, 3]' >>> >>> from datetime import datetime >>> >>> class SomeObject(ComplexModel): ... s = Unicode ... i = Integer ... dt = DateTime ... >>> get_object_as_json(SomeObject(s='str', i=42, dt=datetime.now()), complex_as=list) '[42, "str", "2015-12-01T12:57:23.751631"]' >>> >>> get_json_as_object('[42, "str", "2015-12-01T12:55:21.777108"]', SomeObject, complex_as=list) SomeObject(i=42, s=u'str', dt=datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 1, 12, 55, 21, 777108)) >>> >>> More info: http://spyne.io Best, Burak PS: The astute reader will notice that element order in SomeObject could be totally random. * In Python 3, we solve that by returning an odict() in the __prepare__ of the ComplexModel metaclass. * In Python 2, we solve that by somehow getting hold of AST of the class definition and deducing the order from there. Yes you read that right! I know, it's horrible! Don't worry, it's turned off by default. We recommend the workaround in [1] for Python 2. See [2] and [3] to see how we integrated it. [1]: http://spyne.io/docs/2.10/manual/03_types.html#complex [2]: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/313 [3]: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/blob/2768c7ff0b5f58aa0e47859fcd69e5bb7aa31aba/spyne/util/meta.py -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list