aws / aws/aws-durable-execution-sdk-python
[Feature]: Add composable SerDes transformation pipelines
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- Python
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Description
## What would you like?
Add a composable SerDes processing pipeline while preserving the existing object-to-string `SerDes[T]` API as the value-codec boundary.
Today, transformations such as filesystem offloading, compression, encryption, signing, or custom envelopes must each wrap and own another complete `SerDes`. This makes independent transformations difficult to reuse or reorder.
The proposed model is:
```text
value -> root SerDes -> string stage -> string stage -> checkpoint
value <- root SerDes <- string stage <- string stage <- checkpoint
```
## Possible Implementation
- Introduce a synchronous `SerDesStage` protocol whose serialize/deserialize methods accept and return `str` plus `SerDesContext`.
- Add a `ComposableSerDes` or composition helper that starts with one existing `SerDes[T]`, applies stages in forward order during serialization, and reverses them during deserialization.
- Require stages to emit a self-identifying/versioned format. During deserialization, a stage should:
- reverse valid input in its own format;
- raise `SerDesError` for malformed input that identifies itself as that stage;
- return unrecognized input unchanged.
- Keep existing `SerDes` implementations and configuration APIs backward compatible.
- Allow `FileSystemSerDes` functionality to be exposed as a stage so callers can choose any root value codec and can place compression, encryption, or signing before or after storage as appropriate.
- Add tests for stage order, pass-through of external invocation input, null/empty values, malformed recognized envelopes, and custom value types.
## Is this a breaking change?
No.
## Does this require an RFC?
Yes.
## Additional Context
Python's current `FileSystemSerDes` already supports a configurable inner value SerDes. A pipeline would separate that value-codec responsibility from reusable string transformations instead of adding another nested-wrapper layer. A comparable Java design is being developed in aws/aws-durable-execution-sdk-java#648.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the existing SerDes and FileSystemSerDes implementations and their configuration APIs to understand the current value-codec boundary. Define the stage protocol and composition semantics through the required RFC, then add tests covering ordering, pass-through input, null and empty values, malformed recognized envelopes, and custom value types while preserving backward compatibility.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100