Renamed serialize and deserialize methods to ir_serialize and ir_dese…

…rialize

param/__init__.py

@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ def _validate(self, val):
 
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         return tuple(value) # As JSON has no tuple representation
 
 
@@ -1431,11 +1431,11 @@ def __init__(self, default=None, **params):
         super(Array,self).__init__(ndarray, allow_None=True, default=default, **params)
 
     @classmethod
-    def serialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_serialize(cls, value):
         return value.tolist()
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         from numpy import array
         return array(value)
 
@@ -1511,11 +1511,11 @@ def _validate(self, val):
             self._length_bounds_check(self.rows, len(val), 'Row')
 
     @classmethod
-    def serialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_serialize(cls, value):
         return value.to_dict('records')
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         from pandas import DataFrame as pdDFrame
         return pdDFrame(value)
 
@@ -1861,13 +1861,13 @@ def _validate(self, val):
         self._checkBounds(val)
 
     @classmethod
-    def serialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_serialize(cls, value):
         if not isinstance(value, (dt.datetime, dt.date)): # i.e np.datetime64
             value = value.astype(dt.datetime)
         return value.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         return dt.datetime.strptime(value, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")
 
 
@@ -1896,11 +1896,11 @@ def _validate(self, val):
         self._checkBounds(val)
 
     @classmethod
-    def serialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_serialize(cls, value):
         return value.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         return dt.datetime.strptime(value, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
 
 

param/parameterized.py

@@ -741,12 +741,12 @@ class hierarchy (see ParameterizedMetaclass).
 
 
     @classmethod
-    def serialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_serialize(cls, value):
         "Given the parameter value, return a Python value suitable for serialization"
         return value
 
     @classmethod
-    def deserialize(cls, value):
+    def ir_deserialize(cls, value):
         "Given a serializable Python value, return a value that the parameter can be set to"
         return value
 

param/serializer.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def serialize_parameters(cls, pobj, subset=None):
             if subset is not None and name not in subset:
                 continue
             value = pobj.param.get_value_generator(name)
-            serializable_value = p.serialize(value)
+            serializable_value = p.ir_serialize(value)
             components[name] = json.dumps(serializable_value)
 
         contents = ', '.join('"%s":%s' % (name, sval) for name, sval in components.items())
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def deserialize_parameters(cls, pobj, serialization, subset=None):
         for name, value in serialization.items():
             if subset is not None and name not in subset:
                 continue
-            deserialized = pobj.param[name].deserialize(value)
+            deserialized = pobj.param[name].ir_deserialize(value)
             components[name] = deserialized
 
         return components