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

serialize($perl)

Serialize a perl data structure into a string.

deserialize($bytes)

Deserialize bytes into a perl data structure.

SEE ALSO

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