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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/git/objects/utils.py | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/git/objects/utils.py b/lib/git/objects/utils.py index 7060e293..6d378a72 100644 --- a/lib/git/objects/utils.py +++ b/lib/git/objects/utils.py @@ -280,3 +280,20 @@ class Traversable(object): addToStack( stack, item, branch_first, nd ) # END for each item on work stack + + +class Serializable(object): + """Defines methods to serialize and deserialize objects from and into a data stream""" + + def _serialize(self, stream): + """Serialize the data of this object into the given data stream + :note: a serialized object would ``_deserialize`` into the same objet + :param stream: a file-like object + :return: self""" + raise NotImplementedError("To be implemented in subclass") + + def _deserialize(self, stream): + """Deserialize all information regarding this object from the stream + :param stream: a file-like object + :return: self""" + raise NotImplementedError("To be implemented in subclass") |