In case anyone is interested, I have come up with a solution to the
problem of importing foreign data that seems to work pretty well, at
least for my project. The components are as follows:
1. A custom Serializer/Deserializer pair of classes which are
subclassed on those in django.core.serializ
Jacob,
Thanks for your feedback.
> Though I see what you're trying to solve here, I can't quite see how
> this actually improves anything. That is, what's the difference
> between your proposed::
>
> objs = deserialize("xml", stream, map=some_function)
>
> and the possible-right-now::
>
>
Hi everyone,
Below is an idea I've got for how to make the deserialization
interface a bit more flexible, since I and other users have expressed
a need for it. I am willing to work on implementing this idea
(indeed, I will probably need to, even if it's just for my own
project), but I wanted to
