vmware-nsx/neutron/openstack/common/rpc/serializer.py
Mark McClain 380b0e7db6 Rename Quantum to Neutron
This change renames everything to Neutron while providing backwards
compatible adjustments for Grizzly configuration files.

implements blueprint: remove-use-of-quantum

Change-Id: Ie7d07ba7c89857e13d4ddc8f0e9b68de020a3d19
2013-07-06 15:02:43 -04:00

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# Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
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"""Provides the definition of an RPC serialization handler"""
import abc
class Serializer(object):
"""Generic (de-)serialization definition base class."""
__metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
@abc.abstractmethod
def serialize_entity(self, context, entity):
"""Serialize something to primitive form.
:param context: Security context
:param entity: Entity to be serialized
:returns: Serialized form of entity
"""
pass
@abc.abstractmethod
def deserialize_entity(self, context, entity):
"""Deserialize something from primitive form.
:param context: Security context
:param entity: Primitive to be deserialized
:returns: Deserialized form of entity
"""
pass
class NoOpSerializer(Serializer):
"""A serializer that does nothing."""
def serialize_entity(self, context, entity):
return entity
def deserialize_entity(self, context, entity):
return entity