Source code for wolframclient.serializers.serializable

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals

__all__ = ["WLSerializable"]


[docs]class WLSerializable: """A class that can be serialized using :func:`~wolframclient.serializers.export`. Custom serialization of a class is done by subclassing this class:: from wolframclient.serializers.serializable import WLSerializable from wolframclient.language import wl from wolframclient.serializers import export class MyPythonClass(WLSerializable): def __init__(self, *arguments): self.arguments = arguments def to_wl(self): return wl.MyWolframFunction(*self.arguments) Serialize :data:`MyPythonClass` using :func:`~wolframclient.serializers.export`:: >>> export(MyPythonClass('foo', 'bar')) b'MyWolframFunction["foo", "bar"]' Serialization is applied recursively; arguments are also serialized:: >>> export(MyPythonClass(1, 2, MyPythonClass(2, 3))) 'MyWolframFunction[1, 2, MyWolframFunction[2, 3]]' """
[docs] def to_wl(self): """ Return the serialized form of a given Python class. The returned value must be a combination of serializable types. """ raise NotImplementedError( "class %s must implement a to_wl method" % self.__class__.__name__ )