app/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:24:10 +0200
changeset 2854 003a84e774e2
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Add support for prefetching fields This makes it possible to specify the fields that should be prefetched as part of a getForFields query. Doing a prefetch on a ReferenceProperty when it is known that the property will be referenced in (almost all) entities is far more efficient than doing the invididual fetches sequentially.

"""
YAML serializer.

Requires PyYaml (http://pyyaml.org/), but that's checked for in __init__.
"""

from StringIO import StringIO
import yaml

from django.db import models
from django.core.serializers.python import Serializer as PythonSerializer
from django.core.serializers.python import Deserializer as PythonDeserializer

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