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azure.core.serialization — Azure SDK for Python 2.0.0 documentation

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Published Feb 16, 2026

# coding=utf-8# --------------------------------------------------------------------------# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for# license information.# --------------------------------------------------------------------------import base64from json import JSONEncoderfrom typing import Union, cast, Anyfrom datetime import datetime, date, time, timedeltafrom datetime import timezone__all__ = ["NULL", "AzureJSONEncoder"]TZ_UTC = timezone.utcclass _Null:"""To create a Falsy object""" def __bool__(self) -> bool: return FalseNULL = _Null()"""A falsy sentinel object which is supposed to be used to specify attributeswith no data. This gets serialized to `null` on the wire."""def _timedelta_as_isostr(td: timedelta) -> str:"""Converts a datetime.timedelta object into an ISO 8601 formatted string, e.g. 'P4DT12H30M05S' Function adapted from the Tin Can Python project:  :param td: The timedelta object to convert :type td: datetime.timedelta :return: An ISO 8601 formatted string representing the timedelta object :rtype: str """ # Split seconds to larger units seconds = td.total_seconds() minutes, seconds = divmod(seconds, 60) hours, minutes = divmod(minutes, 60) days, hours = divmod(hours, 24) days, hours, minutes = list(map(int, (days, hours, minutes))) seconds = round(seconds, 6) # Build date date_str = "" if days: date_str = "%sD" % days # Build time time_str = "T" # Hours bigger_exists = date_str or hours if bigger_exists: time_str += "{:02}H".format(hours) # Minutes bigger_exists = bigger_exists or minutes if bigger_exists: time_str += "{:02}M".format(minutes) # Seconds try: if seconds.is_integer(): seconds_string = "{:02}".format(int(seconds)) else: # 9 chars long w/ leading 0, 6 digits after decimal seconds_string = "%09.6f" % seconds # Remove trailing zeros seconds_string = seconds_string.rstrip("0") except AttributeError: # int.is_integer() raises seconds_string = "{:02}".format(seconds) time_str += "{}S".format(seconds_string) return "P" + date_str + time_strdef _datetime_as_isostr(dt: Union[datetime, date, time, timedelta]) -> str:"""Converts a datetime.(datetime|date|time|timedelta) object into an ISO 8601 formatted string. :param dt: The datetime object to convert :type dt: datetime.datetime or datetime.date or datetime.time or datetime.timedelta :return: An ISO 8601 formatted string representing the datetime object :rtype: str """ # First try datetime.datetime if hasattr(dt, "year") and hasattr(dt, "hour"): dt = cast(datetime, dt) # astimezone() fails for naive times in Python 2.7, so make make sure dt is aware (tzinfo is set) if not dt.tzinfo: iso_formatted = dt.replace(tzinfo=TZ_UTC).isoformat() else: iso_formatted = dt.astimezone(TZ_UTC).isoformat() # Replace the trailing "+00:00" UTC offset with "Z" (RFC 3339: ) return iso_formatted.replace("+00:00", "Z") # Next try datetime.date or datetime.time try: dt = cast(Union[date, time], dt) return dt.isoformat() # Last, try datetime.timedelta except AttributeError: dt = cast(timedelta, dt) return _timedelta_as_isostr(dt)[docs]class AzureJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder):"""A JSON encoder that's capable of serializing datetime objects and bytes."""[docs] def default(self, o: Any) -> Any: # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements if isinstance(o, (bytes, bytearray)): return base64.b64encode(o).decode() try: return _datetime_as_isostr(o) except AttributeError: pass return super(AzureJSONEncoder, self).default(o)