https://github.com/brummett/data-transform-explicitmetadata

Transform a Perl data structure into one with explicit metadata
https://github.com/brummett/data-transform-explicitmetadata

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Transform a Perl data structure into one with explicit metadata

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brummett/data-transform-explicitmetadata
• Owner: brummett
• Created: 2014-03-08T22:43:06.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-26T19:51:34.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-06T07:28:25.189Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 68.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
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## Data::Transform::ExplicitMetadata

Transform a Perl data structure into one with basic data types and

explicit metadata.  This data structure can be safely JSON encoded.

## Description

The JSON module can only encode Perl data structures directly representable

as JSON strings: simple scalars, arrayrefs and hashrefs.

This module transforms a perl data structure into one which may safely

be JSON encoded, while maintaining Perl-specific metadata that isn't directly

expressable in JSON such as blessed and tied references, self-referential

data, typeglobs, reference addresses, etc.

When destrializing, it recreates the original data as closely as possible.

It also includes a Javascript library to manipulate the data structure

created from the JSON string.

## Usage

    use Data::Transform::ExplicitMetadata;

    use JSON;

    

    my $encoded = Data::Transform::ExplicitMetadata::encode($perl_data);

    my $json_string = JSON::encode_json($encoded);

    my $perl_copy = Data::Transform::ExplicitMetadata::decode($encoded);