Mike Friedman wrote:
Greetings,
I'm looking at the docs for DBIx::Class::Serialize::Storable (
http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/DBIx-Class-0.07003/lib/DBIx/Class/Serialize/Storable.pm
<http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/DBIx-Class-0.07003/lib/DBIx/Class/Serialize/Storable.pm>
)
The Synopsis refers to some mysterious thing called $cache; what is
that? All I want to do is automatically freeze and thaw a Storable blob
in one column of a table. I gather I need to write a pair of methods to
hook STORABLE_freeze and STORABLE_thaw, but I can't seem to find out how
to write these or what parameters to expect, etc.
Any help will be rewarded with a doc patch. :)
Thanks,
Mike
P.S. What exactly is the difference between D::C::Serialize and
D::C::InflateColumn? For example, I noticed
D::C::InflateColumn::DateTime which I'm planning to use also and which
seems to do roughly the same thing, except for DateTime objects instead
of Storable.
Serialize::Storable is for the Storable module to serialize entire
DBIx::Class objects into a format suitable for use on disk/IPC. See
Storable for more info on this. So not what you want at all - don't
worry about a doc patch to clarify this as this module will be removed
before next release.
InflateColumn is for going to/from an object for a given column. I.e.
turn datetime column into a DateTime object on read, and from DateTime
object to datetime column (str value) on write.
However for blobs I was under the impression that it would Just Work.
i.e. you'd get a scalar value with your data in.
Ash
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