Bug #6095
Updated by Brett Smith almost 9 years ago
Implementation steps: # 1. Add an OrderedJsonModel class to arvados.api. This is a subclass of googleapiclient.model.JsonModel. It overrides the de/serialize methods. When it calls a json load/dump method, it passes in collections.OrderedDict as the object_hook to preserve order (refer to the json module documentation). # 2. Ensure that whenever arv-copy instantiates an API client, it passes in an OrderedJsonModel instance as the @model@ keyword argument. Refer to the apiclient.discovery PyDoc. This will make arv-copy do the right thing with pipeline templates, and give us the right API hooks to extend this functionality to other Python clients easily. We should not make OrderedJsonModel the default model because the space overhead is noticeable, and not necessary for most applications.