Source code for rdflib.serializer

"""
Serializer plugin interface.

This module is useful for those wanting to write a serializer that can
plugin to rdflib. If you are wanting to invoke a serializer you likely
want to do so through the Graph class serialize method.

TODO: info for how to write a serializer that can plugin to rdflib.
See also rdflib.plugin

"""

from rdflib.term import URIRef

__all__ = ['Serializer']


[docs]class Serializer(object):
[docs] def __init__(self, store): self.store = store self.encoding = "UTF-8" self.base = None
[docs] def serialize(self, stream, base=None, encoding=None, **args): """Abstract method"""
[docs] def relativize(self, uri): base = self.base if base is not None and uri.startswith(base): uri = URIRef(uri.replace(base, "", 1)) return uri