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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

Classes:

__all__ module-attribute 

__all__ = ['Serializer']

Serializer 

Serializer(store: Graph)

Methods:

Attributes:

Source code in rdflib/serializer.py 
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def __init__(self, store: Graph):
    self.store: Graph = store
    self.encoding: str = "utf-8"
    self.base: Optional[str] = None

base instance-attribute 

base: Optional[str] = None

encoding instance-attribute 

encoding: str = 'utf-8'

store instance-attribute 

store: Graph = store

relativize 

relativize(uri: _StrT) -> Union[_StrT, URIRef]
Source code in rdflib/serializer.py 
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def relativize(self, uri: _StrT) -> Union[_StrT, URIRef]:
    base = self.base
    if base is not None and uri.startswith(base):
        # type error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "str", variable has type "Node")
        uri = URIRef(uri.replace(base, "", 1))  # type: ignore[assignment]
    return uri

serialize 

serialize(stream: IO[bytes], base: Optional[str] = None, encoding: Optional[str] = None, **args: Any) -> None

Abstract method

Source code in rdflib/serializer.py 
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def serialize(
    self,
    stream: IO[bytes],
    base: Optional[str] = None,
    encoding: Optional[str] = None,
    **args: Any,
) -> None:
    """Abstract method"""