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.. _api.ipc:

Serialization and IPC
=====================

Inter-Process Communication
---------------------------

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: ../generated/

   ipc.new_file
   ipc.open_file
   ipc.new_stream
   ipc.open_stream
   ipc.read_message
   ipc.read_record_batch
   ipc.get_record_batch_size
   ipc.read_tensor
   ipc.write_tensor
   ipc.get_tensor_size
   ipc.Message
   ipc.MessageReader
   ipc.RecordBatchFileReader
   ipc.RecordBatchFileWriter
   ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader
   ipc.RecordBatchStreamWriter

Serialization
-------------

.. warning::

   The serialization functionality is deprecated in pyarrow 2.0, and will
   be removed in a future version. Use the standard library ``pickle`` or
   the IPC functionality of pyarrow (see :ref:`ipc`).


.. autosummary::
   :toctree: ../generated/

   serialize
   serialize_to
   deserialize
   deserialize_components
   deserialize_from
   read_serialized
   SerializedPyObject
   SerializationContext