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NAME

MLDBM::Serializer::JSON - DBM serializer uses JSON for language interoperability

SYNOPSIS

    # using MLDBM hash interface
    use MLDBM qw(DB_File JSON);    # use Storable for serializing

    my %db;
    my $dbm = tie %db, 'MLDBM' [ ... other MLDBM args ... ] or die $!

    $db{foo}  = 'bar';
    $db{more} = 42;

    while( my ($k,$v) = each %db) {
        print "$k = $v\n";
    }

    # or using DBD::DBM ...
    use DBI;

    my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:DBM:", undef, undef, {
        dbm_type = "DB_File",
        dbm_mldbm = "JSON",
    });
    ...

DESCRIPTION

MLDBM::Serializer::JSON provides an extension to MLDBM to enable storing the additional columns as JSON instead of Data::Dumper or FreezeThaw.

JSON is very widely used - from Perl over Ruby to Python and surely JavaScript and so on.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

serialize

serialize a given array into a json string

deserialize

deserialize a json string into an array for MLDBM

AUTHOR

Jens Rehsack, <rehsack at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-mldbm-serializer-json at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=MLDBM-Serializer-JSON. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc MLDBM::Serializer::JSON

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Jens Rehsack.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.