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Maplat-0.95
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NAME

Maplat::Helpers::DBSerialize - serialize data structures for saving them into a database text field

SYNOPSIS

use Maplat::Helpers::DBSerialize;

my $textstring = dbfreeze($reftodata);
my $reftodata = dbthaw($textstring);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides functions to encode data structures in a way so they can be saved to non-binary text strings in databases (like the "text" data type in PostgreSQL).

Internally, it uses Storable and MIME::Base64 to do its job.

dbfreeze

Takes one argument, the reference to the data structure to be encoded. Returns a text string.

dbthaw

Takes one argument, a text string encoded by dbfreeze(). Returns a reference to a data structure.

AUTHOR

Rene Schickbauer, <rene.schickbauer@magnapowertrain.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Rene Schickbauer

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.