SerializableClass

Purpose

This small class is made for ease and standardize saving and loading procedures in classes with inheritance in the case when pickle is not applicable.

Usage

After you declare a new root class with name ClassName of inheritance you should write following string

ClassName.initNewRootOfInheritance()

WARNING: do not define __init__ functions with more than one parameter in root class or its descendants.

After that type:

ClassName.registerClass("someString")

You can leave the parameter of registerClass function empty in this case string would be generated automatically.

WARNING: do not use equal string parameters in descendants of one root class!

Also, each class should have two functions defined:

def saveThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

pass

def loadThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

pass

This functions should save and load fields of class where they defined, not parent classes fields.

Installation

pip install serialazableClass

Example

from serializableClass import SerializableClass

class rootClass(SerializableClass):

def saveThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("save root")

def loadThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("load root")

rootClass.initNewRootOfInheritance() rootClass.registerClass("root")

class d1(rootClass):

def saveThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("save d1")

def loadThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("load d1")

d1.registerClass("d1")

class d2(rootClass):

def saveThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("save d2")

def loadThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("load d2")

d2.registerClass("d2")

class d3(d1, d2):

def saveThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("save d3")

def loadThisObjectDataOnly_(self, folder):

print("load d3")

d3.registerClass("d3")

obj = d3()

obj.save("test")

#output is #save d3 #save d1 #save root #save d2

obj.load("test")

#output is #load root #load d1 #load d2 #load d3