msrest

import json import datetime import isodate # Needed for deserialized datetime object type checking from msrest.serialization import Serializer, Deserializer # Define a simple model schema for demonstration models = { 'MyModel': { 'type': 'object', 'properties': { 'id': {'type': 'integer', 'format': 'int32'}, 'name': {'type': 'string'}, 'created_at': {'type': 'string', 'format': 'date-time'} }, 'required': ['id', 'name'] } } # Initialize Serializer and Deserializer with defined models serializer = Serializer(models) deserializer = Deserializer(models) # Create a Python object to be serialized class MyModel: def __init__(self, id, name, created_at=None): self.id = id self.name = name self.created_at = created_at instance_to_serialize = MyModel( id=1, name='Example Item', created_at=datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) ) # Serialize the object to a format suitable for a REST API call # The 'MyModel' string refers to the schema key defined in 'models' serialized_data = serializer.body(instance_to_serialize, 'MyModel') print("Serialized data:", json.dumps(serialized_data, indent=2)) # Simulate a raw JSON response from a REST API raw_json_response = { "id": 2, "name": "Another Example", "created_at": "2023-10-27T10:30:00Z" } # Deserialize the raw JSON response into a Python object deserialized_instance = deserializer(MyModel, raw_json_response) print(f"\nDeserialized name: {deserialized_instance.name}") print(f"Deserialized created_at: {deserialized_instance.created_at}") print(f"Type of deserialized created_at: {type(deserialized_instance.created_at)}")