X-Git-Url: https://code.grnet.gr/git/ganeti-local/blobdiff_plain/e91ffe49c804266a4181ae80abc12f7cf4b74b14..da961187f97344fde390140ebb2f10d10d334d51:/lib/serializer.py

diff --git a/lib/serializer.py b/lib/serializer.py
index c5a8b0d..fcde992 100644
--- a/lib/serializer.py
+++ b/lib/serializer.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ backend (currently json).
 import simplejson
 import re
 
+
 # Check whether the simplejson module supports indentation
 _JSON_INDENT = 2
 try:
@@ -38,14 +39,20 @@ except TypeError:
 _RE_EOLSP = re.compile('[ \t]+$', re.MULTILINE)
 
 
-def DumpJson(data):
+def DumpJson(data, indent=True):
   """Serialize a given object.
 
+  @param data: the data to serialize
+  @param indent: whether to indent output (depends on simplejson version)
+
+  @return: the string representation of data
+
   """
-  if _JSON_INDENT is None:
+  if not indent or _JSON_INDENT is None:
     txt = simplejson.dumps(data)
   else:
     txt = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
+
   txt = _RE_EOLSP.sub("", txt)
   if not txt.endswith('\n'):
     txt += '\n'
@@ -55,6 +62,10 @@ def DumpJson(data):
 def LoadJson(txt):
   """Unserialize data from a string.
 
+  @param txt: the json-encoded form
+
+  @return: the original data
+
   """
   return simplejson.loads(txt)