Module: tastypie/lib/serializer

serializer = new require("tastypie/lib/serializer")();
serializer.serialize({key:value}, "text/xml", null, console.log );

// define new acceptable content types & formats
FakeSerializer = new tastypie.Class({
     inherits:Serializer
     ,options:{
         content_types:{
             'application/vnd+fakescript':['fake', 'vnd-fake']
         }
     }

     ,constructor: function( options ){
         this.setOptions( options )
     }
     ,to_fake: function(data, callback){ ... }
     ,from_fake:function(data,callback){ ... }
});
// ?format=fake

Requires

• module:xml2js
• module:jstoxml
• module:events
• module:util
• module:debug
• module:tastypie/lib/class
• module:tastypie/lib/class/options
• module:mout/lang/kindOf
• module:prim-util/prime/parentize
• module:mout/lang/isObject
• module:tastypie/lib/utility
• module:tastypie/lib/exceptions

Methods

---

deserialize(Data, contentType, callback)

Converts a data string into a javascript object based on a specified content type

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
Data	String	string to convert into an object
contentType	String	the content type of the string to be deserialzie
callback	function	a function to call when deserialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

---

from_json(json, callback)

Converts a json string into an object

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
json	String	valid json string to parse into an object
callback	function	callback function to call when deserialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

---

from_xml(xml, callback)

converts an xml string into an object

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
xml	String	valid xml string to parse into an object
callback	function	callback function to call when deserialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

---

serialize(data, format, callback)

Serialized an object into a string of a specified format

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
data	Object	The data object to be serialized into a string
format	String	The format to serialize the object down to
callback	function	A callback function to be called when serialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

Throws:

SerializationError

---

to_json(json, callback)

Converts an object into a valid JSON string

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
json	String	valid json string to parse into an object
callback	function	callback function to call when deserialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

---

to_jsonp(data, callback)

Converts an object in to a jsonp string

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
data	Object	data object to serialzie
callback	function	a callback function to call when serialization is complete. Must accept an error object and data payload

Source:

• lib/serializer.js

---

to_xml(data, callback)

Converts an object to an xml string

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
data	String	object to convert into an xml string
callback	function	callback function to call when deserialization is complete

Source:

• lib/serializer.js