You should subclass DateTime into your own package

package My::DateTime;
use base ('DateTime');

sub TO_JSON { ...; }

Then bless your objects into My::DateTime

Probably errors since I'm typing on my phone but you get the gist.

Mark

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> On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:58 PM, "Michael R. Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Mark et al,
>  
> >> I need to call a JSON web service with dates.  ...  
> >> '/Date(1392233750000-0600)/'
> > As far as I am aware, JSON supports auto-serialization of a blessed object 
> > only if allow_blessed => 1 and convert_blessed => 1.
>  
> I'll look into that... It looks like I'll need to add a TO_JSON method to the 
> DateTime object (which I'm not exactly sure how to do...)
>  
> Just to make things harder.  Since the remote service requires sort_by and 
> performance of JSON::PP is so SLOW.  I'm using JSON::PP to encode and 
> JSON::XS to decode.  It's crazy the things we have to do to get around 
> implementations in the first place.
> Thanks,
> Mike
>    
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