add shorthand functions for serialization

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Issue type
Feature
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Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by reading the requirements in microsoft/kiota#3406 and inspect the existing model and collection serialization/deserialization abstractions. Define the supported string and stream helpers, content-type and JSON variants, reflection or callback paths, and confirm that the complete API is covered without naming conflicts.

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Description

enhancement

to facilitate serialization and deserialization of models and collections of models, we're adding static helper functions.
More details to be found at https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/3406

For serialization we need:

  • Serialize(contentType, model): string
  • Serialize(contentType, model): stream
  • SerializeCollection(contentType, models): string
  • SerializeCollection(contentType, models): stream
  • Serialize(model): stream (maps to same one passing the json content type as a constant)
  • Serialize(model): string (same)
  • Serialize(models): stream (same)
  • Serialize(models): string (same)

Note: if converting from stream to string is trivial we can ommit the string overloads
Note: if another parameter for the serialization method needs to be added, feel free to do so
Note: if both a string and and stream method need to be added, but can't have the same name, name the string methods with AsString suffix
Note: if the Json methods and the ones accepting the same content type can't have the same namde/would need to be aliased in the consuming code to avoid conflicts, as a ToJsonSuffix (full convention with string SerializeCollectionToJsonAsString)

For deserialization we need:

  • Deserialize(contentType, stream, createTFromDiscriminatorMethod): T
  • Deserialize(contentType, string, createTFromDiscriminatorMethod): T
  • Deserialize(contentType, stream): T (uses reflection, only if possible, calls into the previous one)
  • Deserialize(contentType, string): T (same)
  • DeserializeCollection(contentType, stream, createCallback): T[]
  • DeserializeCollection(contentType, string, createCallback): T[]
  • reflection version x2
  • Json equivalent with constant for all the previous

Note: the same notes as serialization apply
Note: if the collection and single methods can have the same name, make them same

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