mitchellberend/serde_components

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Add a toml Serializer and Deserializer

The toml (de)serializer should be straight forward, as it is designed to map to/from a dict (hashtable).

TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages.

I would like the implementation to not bring in more dependencies but that would definitely be a nice to have.

Tasks that need to be done for this issue to close:

• toml Serializer
• toml Deserializer
• tests

Nice to have:

• Don't add dependencies

Supporting material:

• The format specs

Add a yaml Serializer and Deserializer

The yaml (de)serializer may or may not map to/from a dict. From personal experience this is always true, but there may be cases where it does not map to a dict. It is not directly clear to me from the quoted text if this is true.

There are myriad flavors of data structures, but they can all be adequately represented with three basic primitives: mappings (hashes/dictionaries), sequences (arrays/lists) and scalars (strings/numbers). YAML leverages these primitives and adds a simple typing system and aliasing mechanism to form a complete language for encoding any data structure. While most programming languages can use YAML for data serialization, YAML excels in those languages that are fundamentally built around the three basic primitives. These include the new wave of agile languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby and Javascript.

I would like the implementation to not bring in more dependencies but that would definitely be a nice to have.

Tasks that need to be done for this issue to close:

• decide what version(s) to support
• yaml Serializer
• yaml Deserializer
• tests

Nice to have:

• Don't add dependencies

Supporting material:
The format specs

Implement the full toml spec

A continuation of #4

This issue handles the rest of the toml spec. The current implementation covers most of my current use cases. Things like dot notation on keys being treated as properties are not implemented yet.

The format specs

Deserializers should also take factories to create new records

Currently all deserializers require an instance of the class that data will be mapped into. This can cause some issues when the data that gets mapped is an iterable and the size of this iterable is unknown.

defaultdict can take a factory as it's first argument so it knows what to instantiate when no value is found on a given key.