#4656: Allow In-depth serialization by specifying depth to follow relationship
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Reporter: jay.m.mar...@gmail.com | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Serialization | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: feature
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Changes (by russellm):
* version: SVN =>
Comment:
@orokusaki: That's some might fine LISP you've written :-)
Seriously - there's more to this problem than just specifying a tree of
attributes to dump (although that is certainly part of the problem). The
rendering format is also an issue. For example, should a foreign key be
represented as:
{{{
{
"pk": 1,
"model": "app.foo",
"fields": {
"name": "first",
"child": {
"pk": 1,
"model": "app.bar",
"fields": {
"attrib": 3
}
}
}
}
}}}
or
{{{
{
"pk": 1,
"model": "app.foo",
"fields": {
"name": "first",
"child": {
"pk": 1,
"attrib": 3
}
}
}
}}}
or
{{{
{
"pk": 1,
"name": "first",
"child": {
"pk": 1,
"attrib": 3
}
}
}}}
or something else entirely? Different users will have different needs. And
I haven't even started looking into the XML-related problems (what tag
name do I use? Do I use an attribute or CDATA to represent content?)
This isn't something we're going to be able to cram into the arguments of
a single function. in order to give full customizability, we're going to
need to provide a class-based mechanism for describing serialization.
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