Serializers are responsible for (de)serializing between strings and Python types. The input/output format is sometimes referred to as a wire format. Serializers live in grassyknoll.serial.

Current Serializers

• JsonSerial: a serialzers for JSON
• PlainSerial: Output only.

HTML

HTML serialization is currently provided as part of the RestFrontend.

Desired Serializers

• bencode: Basically a 'binary' JSON
• pickle
• XML
• YAML
• csv: and variants, like tab-separated

Serializer Protocol

A serialzier is any object (often a module) with the following attributes:

• MIMETYPES: set of strings specifying the mimetypes the converter handles.
• loads: a one-argument callable that takes a basestring and returns a basic Python types (builtins + datetime)
• dumps: a one-argument callable that takes basic Python types and returns a string representation.