Mastering Object-oriented Python

Chapter 12. Transmitting and Sharing Objects

We'll expand on our serialization techniques for the object representation shown in Chapter 9, Serializing and Saving – JSON, YAML, Pickle, CSV, and XML. When we need to transmit an object, we're performing some kind of Representational State Transfer (REST). When we serialize an object, we're creating a representation of the state of an object. This representation can be transferred to another process (usually on another host computer); the other process can then build a version of the original object from the representation of the state and a local definition of the class.

We can perform REST processing in a number of ways. One aspect of it is the state representation that we can use. Another aspect ...