Merge pull request #9 from gselzer/deserialize-device-subclasses

feat: Deserialize device subclasses

Author: tlambert03

pyproject.toml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Typing :: Typed",
 ]
-dependencies = ["Pyro5", "pymmcore-plus[cli]", "msgpack", "msgpack-numpy"]
+dependencies = ["Pyro5", "pymmcore-plus[cli]>=0.14.0", "msgpack", "msgpack-numpy"]
 
 # https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/#dependencies-optional-dependencies
 [dependency-groups]

src/pymmcore_remote/_serialize.py

@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ def to_dict(self, obj: Device) -> dict:
 
         return {
             "device_label": obj.label,
-            "adapter_name": obj._adapter_name,
-            "device_name": obj._device_name,
-            "type": obj._type,
-            "description": obj._description,
             "core_uri": GLOBAL_DAEMON and GLOBAL_DAEMON.uriFor(CORE_NAME),
         }
 
@@ -171,7 +167,7 @@ def from_dict(self, classname: str, d: dict) -> Device:
 
         core_uri = d.pop("core_uri")
         core = MMCorePlusProxy.instance(core_uri)
-        return Device(**d, mmcore=core)
+        return Device.create(d["device_label"], mmcore=core)
 
 
 class SerRePattern(Serializer[re.Pattern]):