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This patch is a proposition to the oslo.serialization for making a more convenient API. Let me explain briefly why the current library isn't very convenient for its users. Imagine that a library user want to implement a function having some (de-)serialization inside. The user also wants to make serialization configurable through an additional argument to the function (e.g. some id like "json", "msgpack" etc.). One can achieve this behaviour by importing all necessary serializers (an import per a serializer) and adding some logic for selecting an appropriate serialization mechanism depending on id. But what if some new serializer is added to the oslo.serialization? Then all users of the library will have to make changes in their code. It's not good, and I think it would be better if all changes concerning serializers were in the oslo.serialization library. Therefore I think it is a good idea to have a module which will bring together all implemented serializers under a unified and somewhat simplified (because in most cases default values for some parameters are fine) object oriented API, so that future users of the library will be able to get any available serializer by its id (importing only one module). Also it is worth saying that the patch doesn't affect already written code, so there won't be any problems with the backward compatibility. May be this implementation isn't the best one, but I hope the community will appreciate the idea and propose possible improvements. Change-Id: Idb12666255a990dfc8f8ff6b43e941b3481b9c1c |
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