Source code for falcon.media.base

import abc

import six


[docs]@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta) class BaseHandler(object): """Abstract Base Class for an internet media type handler"""
[docs] @abc.abstractmethod # pragma: no cover def serialize(self, obj): """Serialize the media object on a :any:`falcon.Response` Args: obj (object): A serializable object. Returns: bytes: The resulting serialized bytes from the input object. """
[docs] @abc.abstractmethod # pragma: no cover def deserialize(self, raw): """Deserialize the :any:`falcon.Request` body. Args: raw (bytes): Input bytes to deserialize Returns: object: A deserialized object. """