storage engine access to serialized version of a TABLE or TABLE_SHARE?

[Zardosht Kasheff]

Hello all,

Is there a way for the storage engine to get some sort of byte stream
that represents a serialized version of a TABLE or TABLE_SHARE object?
The goal is to save it locally during handler::create and then check
its contents (as a sanity check) with the TABLE_SHARE passed in during
handler::open.

Is this possible? And if it is, is there a way to take this serialized
data and print what the table looks like in user readable form?

Thanks
-Zardosht