""" 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