NAME

TOML::XS - Parse TOML with XS

SYNOPSIS

# NB: Don’t read_text(), or stuff may break.
my $toml = File::Slurper::read_binary('/path/to/toml/file');

my $struct = TOML::XS::from_toml($toml)->to_struct();

DESCRIPTION

This module facilitates parsing of TOML documents in Perl via XS, which should offer much greater speed than pure-Perl TOML parsers.

It is currently implemented as a wrapper around the tomlc99 C library.

FUNCTIONS

$doc = TOML::XS::from_toml($byte_string)

Converts a byte string (i.e., raw, undecoded bytes) that contains a serialized TOML document to a TOML::XS::Document instance.

MAPPING TOML TO PERL

Most TOML data items map naturally to Perl. The following details are relevant:

• Strings are character-decoded.

• Booleans are represented as TOML::XS::true and TOML::XS::false, which are namespace aliases for the relevant constants from Types::Serialiser.

• Timestamps are represented as TOML::XS::Timestamp instances.

NOTE ON CHARACTER DECODING

This library mimics the default configuration of popular JSON modules: the TOML input to the parser is expected to be a byte string, while the strings that the parser outputs are character strings.

PERFORMANCE

For small- and medium-sized files this should be quite a bit faster than pure-Perl TOML parsers. With larger files the speed gains are more muted or even (??) reversed. (That’s an underlying issue with tomlc99.)

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2021 Gasper Software Consulting. All rights reserved.

This library is licensed under the same license as Perl itself.

tomlc99 is licensed under the MIT License.