NAME
SPOPS::Export::Object - Dump SPOPS objects to a portable format
SYNOPSIS
# See SPOPS::ExportDESCRIPTION
You can use this format yourself, or feed it to SPOPS::Import::Object to easily move objects from one database to another.
PROPERTIES
No extra ones beyond SPOPS::Export
METHODS
create_header()
Creates the text for the variable initialization and the two pieces of metadata we need.
create_record()
Dumps the record, each field being serialized by serialize_field_data().
create_footer()
Just close up the variable initialized in create_header().
serialize_field_data( $data )
Return a string suitable for serializing the value of $data. You must ensure that it will return properly after an eval{}. For instance, the following:
$object->{publisher} = "O'Reilly and Associates";Cannot simply be returned in single quotes:
'O'Reilly and Associates'Because it will not evaluate properly. The default return for all object values is:
q{O'Reilly and Associates}But we also check the string to see if it has any braces in it and if so, try a few other characters.
BUGS
None known.
TO DO
Nothing known.
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 intes.net, inc.. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHORS
Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>