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"""Serializer abstraction module

This module introduces a simple abstraction over the serialization

backend (currently json).

"""

import simplejson

import ConfigParser

import re

# Check whether the simplejson module supports indentation

_JSON_INDENT = 2

try:

  simplejson.dumps(1, indent=_JSON_INDENT)

except TypeError:

  _JSON_INDENT = None

_RE_EOLSP = re.compile('\s+$', re.MULTILINE)

def DumpJson(data):

  """Serialize a given object.

  """

  if _JSON_INDENT is None:

    txt = simplejson.dumps(data)

  else:

    txt = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=_JSON_INDENT)

  if not txt.endswith('\n'):

    txt += '\n'

  txt = _RE_EOLSP.sub("", txt)

  return txt

def LoadJson(txt):

  """Unserialize data from a string.

  """

  return simplejson.loads(txt)

Dump = DumpJson

Load = LoadJson