NAME¶

Catmandu::Serializer - Base class for all Catmandu Serializers

SYNOPSIS¶

    package Catmandu::Serializer::Foo;
    use Moo;
    sub serialize {
        my ($self,$data) = @_;
        .. transform the data to a string and return it...
    }
    sub deserialize {
        my ($self,$string) = @_;
        ... transform the string into a perl hash ...
    }
    package MyPackage;
    use Moo;
    with 'Catmandu::Serializer';
    package main;
    my $pkg = MyPackage->new;
    my $string = $pkg->serialize({ foo => 'bar' });
    my $perl   = $pkg->deserialize($string);
    # Using Catmandu::Serializer::Foo 
    my $pkg = MyPackage->new( serialization_format => 'Foo' );
    my $string = $pkg->serialize({ foo => 'bar' });
    my $perl   = $pkg->deserialize($string);

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a convience class to send Perl hashes easily over the wire without having to instantiate a Catmandu::Importer and Catmandu::Exporter which are more suited for processing IO streams.

ATTRIBUTES¶

serialization_format¶

The name of the package that serializes data.

serializer¶

An instance of the package that serializes.

METHODS¶

SEE ALSO¶

Catmandu::Store::DBI, Catmandu::Serializer::json, Catmandu::Serializer::storabe, Catmandu::Serializer::messagepack