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21 """Serializer abstraction module
23 This module introduces a simple abstraction over the serialization
24 backend (currently json).
32 # Check whether the simplejson module supports indentation
35 simplejson.dumps(1, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
39 _RE_EOLSP = re.compile('[ \t]+$', re.MULTILINE)
42 def DumpJson(data, indent=True):
43 """Serialize a given object.
45 @param data: the data to serialize
46 @param indent: whether to indent output (depends on simplejson version)
48 @return: the string representation of data
51 if not indent or _JSON_INDENT is None:
52 txt = simplejson.dumps(data)
54 txt = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
56 txt = _RE_EOLSP.sub("", txt)
57 if not txt.endswith('\n'):
63 """Unserialize data from a string.
65 @param txt: the json-encoded form
67 @return: the original data
70 return simplejson.loads(txt)