On Monday 09 August 2010 20:59:50 David Nicol wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Marco Neves [ModAuthors] > > <perl-module-auth...@knowhunter.cjb.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In need for a way to transfer a large amount of small > > datastructures I created a module that stores and retrieves a stream of > > storables in a file. > > I'm confused -- a stream can't be stored in a file, because it is > continually generated. > > Also, what is different about this freezer/thawer that makes it > superior to, for instance, YAML or compressed Data::Dumper dumps? > > That is, for what general class of use cases would one prefer the > Neves data marshalling system to the available others? > > Also, if you're reusing other things in it -- you say "storables" are > you doing something like prefixing length and colon to the output of > Storable and jamming a bunch of those together? -- the underlying > technology and then "stream" might make sense, especially if it can > take an open handle instead of a file name in its constructor. Such a > thing could be nice for creating an abstracted pipe between > distributed processes for instance.
Hi, Yes, the module does store a lot of storables on a single file, and yes, it accepts an open handler as constructor. I written it to transfer large amounts of "small" data structures between servers. I'm thinking to use the name Archive::StorableStream for the module. The git repository is in: http://git.magick-source.net/perl5/storablestream Before you tell it, I know, none of the docs are still done. mpn -- Magick Source http://www.magick-source.net