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