def connect(url):
    """
        Connect this serializer to a serialization resource, as defined in
        ``url``.

        Bravo uses URLs to specify all serialization resources. While there is
        no strict enforcement of the identifier being a URL, most popular
        database libraries can understand URL-based resources, and thus it is
        a useful *de facto* standard. If a URL is not passed, or the URL is
        invalid, this method may raise an exception.
        """
