[Grok-dev] serializing and deserializing models to XML

[Martin Aspeli]

Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> I would like to get a set of (megrok.rdb-backed) objects and write them
> out as XML, where the object references between them become temporary
> IDs in the XML file, and get rebuilt when I pull the objects back in.
> Is there a module that does this?  Should I be looking at something like
> z3c.schema2xml?  I don't want to write my own one-off deserializer if
> there is already one available that I could help work on.

I think the schema2xml package deals with serialising and de-serialising 
things described by zope.schema type interfaces.

plone.supermodel (in the plone svn repository) deals with serialising 
and de-serialising interface models themselves, although the code it 
does to do that relies on the self-describing nature of zope.schema and 
so should be useful to generically parse any structure described by 
zope.schema fields. It's based on older code in the GS handlers in 
plone.app.portlets and plone.app.contentrules which deal with 
serialising and de-serialising portlet/content rule instances.

Martin

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