NAME

KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize - Serialization role for backends

VERSION

version 0.56

SYNOPSIS

    package KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::Foo;
    use Moose::Role;

    use Foo;

    use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';

    with qw(KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize);

    sub serialize {
        my ( $self, $entry ) = @_;

        Foo::serialize($entry)
    }

    sub deserialize {
        my ( $self, $blob ) = @_;

        Foo::deserialize($blob);
    }

DESCRIPTION

This role provides provides a consistent way to use serialization modules to handle backend serialization.

See KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::Storable, KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::YAML and KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::JSON for examples.

REQUIRED METHODS

serializate $entry

Takes a KiokuDB::Entry as an argument. Should return a value suitable for storage by the backend.

deserialize $blob

Takes whatever serializate returned and should inflate and return a KiokuDB::Entry.

AUTHOR

Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yuval Kogman, Infinity Interactive.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.