How to serialize objects

[mjallday]

Colander does not support serializing an object to its json representation

Maybe pez, schematics or marshmallow

[mahmoudimus]

My vote is for schematics.

• located here: http://schematics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• eco system is huge:
  • json api validation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hyp
  • elasticsearch schematics: https://github.com/asrenzo/schelastics
  • schematics to wtform: https://github.com/ryanolson/schematics-wtf
  • schematics to sqlalchemy: https://github.com/schematics/schemalchemy

[mjallday]

Looks like schematics would require a little work.

https://github.com/schematics/schematics/blob/development/schematics/transforms.py#L58

it wants everything to inherit from a base class, but what you actually want is a library that can map from one set of objects to another. if you look at how the sqlalchemy plugin works it's quite gross.

class Person(Base):

    __tablename__ = 'person'

    _id = Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True)
    _name = Column('name', String(50))

    id = IntType(default=1)
    name = StringType()