Annotations and better tests for serialize_bytes

distributed/protocol/serialize.py

@@ -680,20 +680,21 @@ def serialize_bytelist(
     return frames2
 
 
-def serialize_bytes(x, **kwargs):
+def serialize_bytes(x: object, **kwargs: Any) -> bytes:
     L = serialize_bytelist(x, **kwargs)
     return b"".join(L)
 
 
-def deserialize_bytes(b):
+def deserialize_bytes(b: bytes | bytearray | memoryview) -> Any:
+    """Deserialize the output of :func:`serialize_bytes`"""
     frames = unpack_frames(b)
-    header, frames = frames[0], frames[1:]
-    if header:
-        header = msgpack.loads(header, raw=False, use_list=False)
+    bin_header, frames = frames[0], frames[1:]
+    if bin_header:
+        header = msgpack.loads(bin_header, raw=False, use_list=False)
     else:
         header = {}
-    frames = decompress(header, frames)
-    return merge_and_deserialize(header, frames)
+    frames2 = decompress(header, frames)
+    return merge_and_deserialize(header, frames2)
 
 
 ################################

distributed/protocol/tests/test_serialize.py

@@ -265,21 +265,51 @@ def test_empty_loads_deep():
     assert isinstance(e2[0][0][0], Empty)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(np is None, reason="Test needs numpy")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("kwargs", [{}, {"serializers": ["pickle"]}])
 def test_serialize_bytes(kwargs):
     for x in [
         1,
         "abc",
-        np.arange(5),
         b"ab" * int(40e6),
         int(2**26) * b"ab",
         (int(2**25) * b"ab", int(2**25) * b"ab"),
     ]:
         b = serialize_bytes(x, **kwargs)
         assert isinstance(b, bytes)
         y = deserialize_bytes(b)
-        assert str(x) == str(y)
+        assert x == y
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(np is None, reason="Test needs numpy")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("kwargs", [{}, {"serializers": ["pickle"]}])
+def test_serialize_bytes_numpy(kwargs):
+    x = np.arange(5)
+    b = serialize_bytes(x, **kwargs)
+    assert isinstance(b, bytes)
+    y = deserialize_bytes(b)
+    assert (x == y).all()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(np is None, reason="Test needs numpy")
+def test_deserialize_bytes_zero_copy_read_only():
+    x = np.arange(5)
+    x.setflags(write=False)
+    blob = serialize_bytes(x, compression=False)
+    x2 = deserialize_bytes(blob)
+    x3 = deserialize_bytes(blob)
+    addr2 = x2.__array_interface__["data"][0]
+    addr3 = x3.__array_interface__["data"][0]
+    assert addr2 == addr3
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(np is None, reason="Test needs numpy")
+def test_deserialize_bytes_zero_copy_writeable():
+    x = np.arange(5)
+    blob = bytearray(serialize_bytes(x, compression=False))
+    x2 = deserialize_bytes(blob)
+    x3 = deserialize_bytes(blob)
+    x2[0] = 123
+    assert x3[0] == 123
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(np is None, reason="Test needs numpy")

distributed/protocol/utils.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import ctypes
 import struct
-from collections.abc import Sequence
+from collections.abc import Collection, Sequence
 
 import dask
 
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ def frame_split_size(
     return [frame[i : i + items_per_shard] for i in range(0, nitems, items_per_shard)]
 
 
-def pack_frames_prelude(frames):
+def pack_frames_prelude(frames: Collection[bytes | bytearray | memoryview]) -> bytes:
     nframes = len(frames)
     nbytes_frames = map(nbytes, frames)
     return struct.pack(f"Q{nframes}Q", nframes, *nbytes_frames)
 
 
-def pack_frames(frames):
+def pack_frames(frames: Collection[bytes | bytearray | memoryview]) -> bytes:
     """Pack frames into a byte-like object
 
     This prepends length information to the front of the bytes-like object