feat: smaller serialization for catalog items (#59)

* smaller serialization for catalog items

* numpy2

pyproject.toml

@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ test_thirdparty = [
     "napari>=0.4.19",
     "plotly",
     "pydantic",
-    "pydantic-extra-types",
+    "pydantic-extra-types>=2",
     "pygfx",
     "pytest-qt",
     "rich",
     "viscm",
-    "vispy",
+    "vispy>=0.14",
     "pyqtgraph",
 ]
 dev = [

src/cmap/_colormap.py

@@ -663,7 +663,14 @@ def __get_pydantic_core_schema__(
         from pydantic_core import core_schema
 
         schema = handler(Any)
-        ser = core_schema.plain_serializer_function_ser_schema(lambda x: x.as_dict())
+
+        def _serialize(obj: Colormap) -> Any:
+            if obj.info is not None and obj.info.qualified_name:
+                # this is a catalog item
+                return obj.info.qualified_name
+            return obj.as_dict()
+
+        ser = core_schema.plain_serializer_function_ser_schema(_serialize)
         return core_schema.no_info_after_validator_function(
             cls._validate, schema, serialization=ser
         )

tests/test_model_fields.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 try:
     import pydantic_extra_types.color as pydantic_color
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, NotImplementedError):
     import pydantic.color as pydantic_color
 
 
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ class Config:
     else:
         assert MyModel.parse_raw(serialized) == obj
 
+    # with category colormaps, we only use the qualified name
+    obj2 = MyModel(color="red", colormap=Colormap("viridis"))
+    serialized2 = obj2.json()
+    assert '"colormap":"bids:viridis"' in serialized2
+
 
 def test_psygnal_serialization() -> None:
     # support for _json_encode_ is built into psygnal, ... don't need json_encoders