Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"""
A Python "serializer". Doesn't do much serializing per se -- just converts to
and from basic Python data types (lists, dicts, strings, etc.). Useful as a basis for
other serializers.
"""
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.serializers import base
from django.db import models
from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
class Serializer(base.Serializer):
"""
Serializes a QuerySet to basic Python objects.
"""
internal_use_only = True
def start_serialization(self):
self._current = None
self.objects = []
def end_serialization(self):
pass
def start_object(self, obj):
self._current = {}
def end_object(self, obj):
self.objects.append({
"model" : smart_unicode(obj._meta),
"pk" : smart_unicode(obj._get_pk_val(), strings_only=True),
"fields" : self._current
})
self._current = None
def handle_field(self, obj, field):
self._current[field.name] = smart_unicode(getattr(obj, field.name), strings_only=True)
def handle_fk_field(self, obj, field):
related = getattr(obj, field.name)
if related is not None:
if field.rel.field_name == related._meta.pk.name:
# Related to remote object via primary key
related = related._get_pk_val()
else:
# Related to remote object via other field
related = getattr(related, field.rel.field_name)
self._current[field.name] = smart_unicode(related, strings_only=True)
def handle_m2m_field(self, obj, field):
if field.creates_table:
self._current[field.name] = [smart_unicode(related._get_pk_val(), strings_only=True)
for related in getattr(obj, field.name).iterator()]
def getvalue(self):
return self.objects
def Deserializer(object_list, **options):
"""
Deserialize simple Python objects back into Django ORM instances.
It's expected that you pass the Python objects themselves (instead of a
stream or a string) to the constructor
"""
models.get_apps()
for d in object_list:
# Look up the model and starting build a dict of data for it.
Model = _get_model(d["model"])
data = {Model._meta.pk.attname : Model._meta.pk.to_python(d["pk"])}
m2m_data = {}
# Handle each field
for (field_name, field_value) in d["fields"].iteritems():
if isinstance(field_value, str):
field_value = smart_unicode(field_value, options.get("encoding", settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET), strings_only=True)
field = Model._meta.get_field(field_name)
# Handle M2M relations
if field.rel and isinstance(field.rel, models.ManyToManyRel):
m2m_convert = field.rel.to._meta.pk.to_python
m2m_data[field.name] = [m2m_convert(smart_unicode(pk)) for pk in field_value]
# Handle FK fields
elif field.rel and isinstance(field.rel, models.ManyToOneRel):
if field_value is not None:
data[field.attname] = field.rel.to._meta.get_field(field.rel.field_name).to_python(field_value)
else:
data[field.attname] = None
# Handle all other fields
else:
data[field.name] = field.to_python(field_value)
yield base.DeserializedObject(Model(**data), m2m_data)
def _get_model(model_identifier):
"""
Helper to look up a model from an "app_label.module_name" string.
"""
try:
Model = models.get_model(*model_identifier.split("."))
except TypeError:
Model = None
if Model is None:
raise base.DeserializationError(u"Invalid model identifier: '%s'" % model_identifier)
return Model