oslo.messaging/oslo/messaging/serializer.py
Davanum Srinivas 5f760096d6 Apply six for metaclass
__metaclass__ cannot be used in python3.six be used in general
for python 3 compatibility.

Porting Change-Id I9fc7a59df3af29b4cc1287c40fa4e883d994a961
from oslo-incubator

Change-Id: Icdacdcf5556b6d3b8450d1350c6f62b4f5a9690b
2013-10-14 14:10:31 -04:00

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# Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
# a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
__all__ = ['Serializer', 'NoOpSerializer']
"""Provides the definition of a message serialization handler"""
import abc
import six
@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
class Serializer(object):
"""Generic (de-)serialization definition base class."""
@abc.abstractmethod
def serialize_entity(self, ctxt, entity):
"""Serialize something to primitive form.
:param ctxt: Request context, in deserialized form
:param entity: Entity to be serialized
:returns: Serialized form of entity
"""
@abc.abstractmethod
def deserialize_entity(self, ctxt, entity):
"""Deserialize something from primitive form.
:param ctxt: Request context, in deserialized form
:param entity: Primitive to be deserialized
:returns: Deserialized form of entity
"""
@abc.abstractmethod
def serialize_context(self, ctxt):
"""Serialize a request context into a dictionary.
:param ctxt: Request context
:returns: Serialized form of context
"""
@abc.abstractmethod
def deserialize_context(self, ctxt):
"""Deserialize a dictionary into a request context.
:param ctxt: Request context dictionary
:returns: Deserialized form of entity
"""
class NoOpSerializer(Serializer):
"""A serializer that does nothing."""
def serialize_entity(self, ctxt, entity):
return entity
def deserialize_entity(self, ctxt, entity):
return entity
def serialize_context(self, ctxt):
return ctxt
def deserialize_context(self, ctxt):
return ctxt