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Re^4: Serialise to binary?by davido (Cardinal) |
on Oct 27, 2015 at 02:56 UTC ( [id://1146049]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Thanks for jumping into the discussion! :) It's always great to hear from a maintainer. I'm curious why BSON may not be the right choice. If passing a raw scalar or array is problematic, wouldn't this be a reasonable solution?
Whether $some_scalar contains an array ref, a hash ref, or a flat scalar, encode would still see it as a hash based document. But I don't have a lot of experience with BSON. I remember seeing it presented a few years ago at a PerlMongers meeting in So. Cal, and it stuck in my head as a more portable solution for data serialization when the data might contain binary elements. I was a little surprised to see that there is no (documented) "TO_BSON" means of providing serialization procedures for objects. Is there any plan for that sort of hook in the future? (Sorry to hijack the thread!) Dave
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