NAME

KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize - Serialization role for backends

VERSION

version 0.57

SYNOPSIS

package KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::Foo;
use Moose::Role;

use Foo;

use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';

with qw(KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize);

sub serialize {
    my ( $self, $entry ) = @_;

    Foo::serialize($entry)
}

sub deserialize {
    my ( $self, $blob ) = @_;

    Foo::deserialize($blob);
}

DESCRIPTION

This role provides provides a consistent way to use serialization modules to handle backend serialization.

See KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::Storable, KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::YAML and KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::JSON for examples.

REQUIRED METHODS

serializate $entry

Takes a KiokuDB::Entry as an argument. Should return a value suitable for storage by the backend.

deserialize $blob

Takes whatever serializate returned and should inflate and return a KiokuDB::Entry.

AUTHOR

Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Yuval Kogman, Infinity Interactive.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.