[Enhance] Support dumping datasets to pkl file

[shufanwu]

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Motivation

Support dumping datasets to pkl file https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmengine/issues/896

Modification

add load and dump function for data_list in base_dataset.py

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[HAOCHENYE]

Thanks for your contribution and sorry for the late response. I think that the dump and load should be used like this:

# prepare dataset
dataset = XXXDataset(...)
ori_dataste.dump('saved.pkl')

new_dataset = Dataset.load('saved.pkl')

It means that the dump method should dump all data information, including data_list(unserialized) and data_meta to the file, and load should be a classmethod, which can load the file and recover the original dataset.

[HAOCHENYE]

Hi, thanks for your contribution. The lint seems failed. BTW, I'll test load and dump in some real dataset ASAP 👍

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