When building & testing web services (DX REST) I have generally just hit the web services and pulled down the report, profile list, report list, or whatever other data I needed.  However there is a problem with doing this, continuously pulling the report data down uses up usage unnecessarily & is also somewhat slow for debugging & troubleshooting.

What I'd like to be able to do is to either save, cache, or otherwise maintain a local repository of DimensionalReport Objects that I've previously retrieved form the web services.  I have tried to serialize the returned objects but errors occur.

Does anyone have any other ideas, insight, or thoughts on how to setup an environment that wouldn't require continuously hitting the web services?