my recent progress on serialization

PositionList.py

@@ -33,14 +33,28 @@
 from scipy.interpolate import griddata
 import lxml.etree as ET
 import json
-
+import marshmallow as mm
+
+class NumberDisplaySettingsSchema(mm.Schema):
+    shownumbers = mm.fields.Bool(required=True)
+    color = mm.fields.Str(required=True)
+    horizontalAlignment = mm.fields.Str(required=True)
+    verticalAlignment = mm.fields.Str(required=True)
+
 class NumberDisplaySettings(object):
     def __init__(self,shownumbers=False,color='y',horizontalAlignment='right',verticalAlignment='top'):
         self.shownumbers = shownumbers
         self.color=color
         self.horizontalAlignment = horizontalAlignment
         self.verticalAlignment = verticalAlignment
-
+
+class posListSchema(mm.Schema):
+    mosaic_settings = mm.Nested(MosaicSettingsSchema,required=True)
+    camera_settings = mm.Nested(CameraSettingsSchema,required=True)
+    slicePositions = mm.List(slicePositionSchema)
+    dosort = mm.fields.Bool(required=False,default=True)
+    numberDisplaySettings = mm.Nested(NumberDisplaySettings)
+
 class posList():
     """class for holding, altering, and plotting the position list"""
     def __init__(self,axis,mosaic_settings=MosaicSettings(),camera_settings=CameraSettings(),
@@ -944,7 +958,20 @@ def destroy(self):
         for pos in self.slicePositions:
             pos.destroy()
             del pos
-
+
+class slicePositionSchema(mm.Schema):
+    x = mm.fields.Float(required=True)
+    y = mm.fields.Float(required=True)
+    angle = mm.fields.Angle(required=True)
+    showAngle = mm.fields.Bool(required=False,default=True)
+    selected = mm.fields.Bool(required=False,default=False)
+    activated = mm.fields.Bool(required=False,default=True)
+    withpoint = mm.fields.Bool(required=False,default=True)
+    number = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    numberDisplaySettings = mm.Nested(NumberDisplaySettings)
+    self.frameList = mm.Nested(posListSchema)
+
+
 class slicePosition():
     """class which contains information about a single position in the position list, and is responsible for keeping 
     its matplotlib representation up to date via function calls which are mostly managed by its posList"""

Settings.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import wx
 import os
 import json
+import marshmallow as mm
 
 class DirectorySettings():
 
@@ -426,7 +427,12 @@ def GetSettings(self):
         inlier_thresh = self.inlierThreshIntCtrl.GetValue()
         return SiftSettings(contrastThreshold,numFeatures,inlier_thresh)
 
-
+class CameraSettingsSchema(mm.Schema):
+    sensor_height = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    sensor_widht = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    pix_width = mm.fields.Float(required=True)
+    pix_height = mm.fields.Float(required=True)
+
 class CameraSettings():
     """simple struct for containing the parameters for the camera"""
     def __init__(self,sensor_height=1040,sensor_width=1388,pix_width=6.5,pix_height=6.5):
@@ -600,7 +606,13 @@ def GetSettings(self):
             zoffsets[ch]=self.ZOffCtrls[i].GetValue()
         return ChannelSettings(self.settings.channels,exposure_times=exposure_times,zoffsets=zoffsets,usechannels=usechannels,prot_names=prot_names,map_chan=map_chan)
 
-
+class MosaicSettingsSchema(mm.Schema):
+    mx = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    my = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    overlap = mm.fields.Int(required=True)
+    show_box = mm.fields.Bool(required=True)
+    mag = mm.fields.Float(required=True)
+
 class MosaicSettings:
     def __init__(self,mag=65.486,mx=1,my=1,overlap=20,show_box=False,show_frames=False):
         """a simple struct class for encoding settings about mosaics