# salt.serializers.keyvalue

Added in version 3006.0.

Implements keyvalue serializer which can be used for serializing or deserializing any file which defines keys and values separated by a common set of characters, such environment files, which are in "KEY=value" format.

Options:

param line_ending:

  String representation of LF or CRLF to be used for serialization to a file. Defaults to `\r\n` on Windows and `\n` on other operating systems.

param quoting:

  Boolean flag to determine if values should be quoted (`True`) during serialization or dequoted (`False`) during deserialization. Defaults to `None` (no action).

param separator:

  String representing the character(s) used when concatenating or reading key/value pairs. Defaults to `=`.

A dataset such as:

    foo: bar
    wang: chung

or

    - [foo, bar]
    - [wang, chung]

can be represented as:

    foo=bar
    wang=chung

salt.serializers.keyvalue.deserialize(stream_or_string, **options)

  Deserialize any string or stream like object into a Python data structure.

  Parameters:

    - stream_or_string -- stream or string to deserialize.

    - options -- options given to the function

salt.serializers.keyvalue.serialize(obj, **options)

  Serialize Python data to environment file.

  Parameters:

    - obj -- the data structure to serialize

    - options -- options given to the function