NAME

Convert::PerlRef2String - Perl extension for converting PERL reference object to compressed string and vice versa

SYNOPSIS

The following script

  use Convert::PerlRef2String;
  use Convert::PerlRef2String;
  use Data::Dumper;
  my $perl = {
          'Order' => {
                       'BookName' => 'Programming Web Serivices with Perl',
                       'Id' => '0-596-00206-8',
                       'Quantity' => '500'
                     },
          'Payment' => {
                         'CardType' => 'VISA',
                         'ValidDate' => '12-10-2006',
                         'CardNo' => '1234-5678-9012-3456',
                         'Name' => 'Kai Li'
                       }
        };
  my $string = perlref2string($perl);
  print $string,"\n";
  my $perlref = string2perlref($string);
  print Dumper($perlref);

will produce

  H4sIAAAAAAAAA32QTQuCQBCG7/6KOQR7aWHUtCIKrC5SmH1g5y2XWkqNbSsk/O9Z2Rekc5x9nndn
  phY4Mx26cNXgXWQiQy4JdHs/7Z8i/STZeSziD4z4MtlIFkUi3sCSr2DOpTiLNT/CRagt+FzuSb00
  yw2fKUittk0RDbRpq4KfnlishEqfloVI/qPZdwTxWRrxWFXvlXMDJsNFeig2C9y5Uz5KjgdsL8Ih
  UwWvG1RHaiDaldb9Ey95KWaDWnazRduY62bDqnY/Zx8xAWNBytjs/ZB1tBsqjca86gEAAA==

  $VAR1 = {
          'Order' => {
                       'BookName' => 'Programming Web Serivices with Perl',
                       'Id' => '0-596-00206-8',
                       'Quantity' => '500'
                     },
          'Payment' => {
                         'CardType' => 'VISA',
                         'ValidDate' => '12-10-2006',
                         'CardNo' => '1234-5678-9012-3456',
                         'Name' => 'Kai Li'
                       }
        };

DESCRIPTION

This is a handy tool for who wants to send PERL reference objects over the Internet as compressed strings. When both the sender and receiver are PERL programs you can use this tool as an alternative to exchanging XML files.

EXPORT

perlref2string and string2perlref.

AUTHOR

Kai Li, <kaili@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Kai Li

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.