feat: add serialize flag to dict()

when True, this will avoid unserializable things in the resulting dict,
like dates

Author: sgfost

codemeticulous/mixins.py

@@ -5,16 +5,26 @@
 
 
 class ByAliasExcludeNoneMixin:
-    def dict(self):
+    def dict(self, serialize=False):
+        """Return a dictionary representation of the object
+
+        If serialize is False, this will include some unserializable objects
+        like datetimes. If serialize is True, it will return a dictionary that
+        has been serialized to json and then back
+        """
+        if serialize:
+            return json.loads(self.json())
         if hasattr(self, "model_dump"):
             return self.model_dump(by_alias=True, exclude_none=True)
         return super().dict(by_alias=True, exclude_none=True)
 
     def json(self):
+        """return a serialized json string representation of the object"""
         if hasattr(self, "model_dump_json"):
             return self.model_dump_json(by_alias=True, exclude_none=True)
         return super().json(by_alias=True, exclude_none=True)
 
     def yaml(self):
+        """return a serialized yaml string representation of the object"""
         json_dict = json.loads(self.json())
         return yaml.dump(parse_dict_dates(json_dict), sort_keys=False)