This Asphalt framework component provides a standardized interface for a number of different serialization algorithms:

• CBOR (using cbor2)

• JSON (using the Python standard library json module)

• msgpack (using msgpack-python)

• Pickle (using the Python standard library pickle module)

• YAML (using ruamel.yaml)

Additional backends may be provided through third party plugins.

Some serializers also provide hooks for safely (un)marshalling custom types and this mechanism can easily be plugged into a third party marshalling library.

Table of contents

• Configuration
  • Multiple serializers
• Using serializers
  • Registering custom types with serializers
  • Disabling the default wrapping of marshalled custom types
  • Serializing built-in custom types
• Writing new serializer backends
• Version history
• API reference