app/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
changeset 54 03e267d67478
child 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/app/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py	Fri Jul 18 18:22:23 2008 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+"""
+YAML serializer.
+
+Requires PyYaml (http://pyyaml.org/), but that's checked for in __init__.
+"""
+
+from django.db import models
+from django.core.serializers.python import Serializer as PythonSerializer
+from django.core.serializers.python import Deserializer as PythonDeserializer
+try:
+    from cStringIO import StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    from StringIO import StringIO
+import yaml
+
+class Serializer(PythonSerializer):
+    """
+    Convert a queryset to YAML.
+    """
+    
+    internal_use_only = False
+    
+    def handle_field(self, obj, field):
+        # A nasty special case: base YAML doesn't support serialization of time
+        # types (as opposed to dates or datetimes, which it does support). Since
+        # we want to use the "safe" serializer for better interoperability, we
+        # need to do something with those pesky times. Converting 'em to strings
+        # isn't perfect, but it's better than a "!!python/time" type which would
+        # halt deserialization under any other language.
+        if isinstance(field, models.TimeField) and getattr(obj, field.name) is not None:
+            self._current[field.name] = str(getattr(obj, field.name))
+        else:
+            super(Serializer, self).handle_field(obj, field)
+    
+    def end_serialization(self):
+        self.options.pop('stream', None)
+        self.options.pop('fields', None)
+        yaml.safe_dump(self.objects, self.stream, **self.options)
+
+    def getvalue(self):
+        return self.stream.getvalue()
+
+def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
+    """
+    Deserialize a stream or string of YAML data.
+    """
+    if isinstance(stream_or_string, basestring):
+        stream = StringIO(stream_or_string)
+    else:
+        stream = stream_or_string
+    for obj in PythonDeserializer(yaml.load(stream)):
+        yield obj
+