Have you looked at Storable? It may help you.
It can store objects to the filesystem or to memory, then
retrieve them, transforming them back into objects.
So perhaps you could freeze the object to a scalar, store
it in a blob in your database, pull it back out, thaw it,
then use it again? I don't know--I've only tested Storable
using the filesystem, but it seems logical that you could
do the same thing w/ a database.
You might be able to do something like this (untested):
use Storable qw/freeze thaw/;
use DBI;
use Foo; # replace this with your module name
my $object = new Foo;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('bar', 'foo', 'foo', 'Oracle')
or die "Can't connect: ", DBI->errstr;
# store it
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<SQL) or die "Can't prepare: ", $dbh->errstr;
insert into objects (id, content)
values (?, ?)
SQL
$sth->execute("foo", freeze $object)
or die "Can't execute: ", $dbh->errstr;
$sth->finish;
# now get it back
my $retrieve = $dbh->prepare(<<SQL) or die "Can't prepare: ", $dbh->er
+rstr;
select content
from objects
where id = ?
SQL
$retrieve->execute("foo");
my $content = $retrieve->fetchrow;
my $unthawed = thaw $content;
...and now use $unthawed just as you would your original
object.
Does this sound like what you want?
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