import collections from fatcat_openapi_client import ApiClient def entity_to_dict(entity, api_client=None): """ Hack to take advantage of the code-generated serialization code. Initializing/destroying ApiClient objects is surprisingly expensive (because it involves a threadpool), so we allow passing an existing instance. If you already have a full-on API connection `api`, you can access the ApiClient object as `api.api_client`. This is such a speed-up that this argument may become mandatory. """ if not api_client: api_client = ApiClient() return api_client.sanitize_for_serialization(entity) def entity_from_json(json_str, entity_type, api_client=None): """ Hack to take advantage of the code-generated deserialization code See not on `entity_to_dict()` about api_client argument. """ if not api_client: api_client = ApiClient() thing = collections.namedtuple('Thing', ['data']) thing.data = json_str return api_client.deserialize(thing, entity_type)