How to Dump/write and load a Discontinuous Data collection to an external file

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@RafaelA ,

Data Collections can be serialized to/from a dictionary or JSON but the honeybee serialization components are only meant for serializing honeybee objects. You can do the serailization to JSON with the following code:

import json

a = 'C:/ladybug/data_collection.json'
obj_dict = [data.to_dict() for data in x]

with open(a, 'w') as fp:
    json.dump(obj_dict, fp)

And here’s how you can re-serialize it back:

from ladybug.datacollection import HourlyDiscontinuousCollection
import json

with open(x) as json_file:
    all_data = json.load(json_file)

a = [HourlyDiscontinuousCollection.from_dict(data) for data in all_data]

Here’s a sample file:
DataCollection_Serialization.gh (22.5 KB)

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