nodedge.serializable¶

Serializable “interface” module. It is an abstract class.

class nodedge.serializable.Serializable¶

Bases: object

Create data which are common to any serializable object.

It stores the id of the object used in the SceneHistory, the SceneClipboard, and the file structure.

serialize() → OrderedDict¶

Serialization method to serialize this class data into OrderedDict which can be stored in memory or file easily.

deserialize(data: dict, hashmap: Optional[dict] = None, restoreId: bool = True, *args, **kwargs) → bool¶

Deserialization method which take data in python dict format with helping hashmap containing references to existing entities.

Parameters

data (dict) – dictionary containing serialized data
hashmap (dict) – helper dictionary containing references (by id == key) to existing objects
restoreId (bool) – True if we are creating new sockets. False is useful when loading existing sockets which we want to keep the existing object’s id

Returns

True if deserialization was successful, False otherwise

Return type

bool