[question] serialization of label indices

[xiuliren]

is there a function to serialize and deserialize the label indices?
Currently, I am using pickle to do it.

[stuarteberg]

I don’t typically save them to disk. But DVID uses prorogued protobuf to send/receive them. You could use that, I suppose. (See the imports at the top of _labelindex.py) Not sure if it’s any better than pickle, though.

Another option is to convert them to pandas DataFrames (and back), but then you have to handle a few metadata fields yourself (mutid, lastmod).

(Sorry for not giving links. Typing from my phone.)

[stuarteberg]

Oops, that was supposed to say protobuf! (Sorry, phone typo.)