Below comments are on target, I believe. Basically, you:

  1. enable allow_tags.
  2. implement FREEZE and THAW in your class(es) that are being encoded in the JSON
  3. set type in FREEZE with __PACKAGE__ (or something you know)
  4. in __PACKAGE__ implement THAW method that allows you to "inflate" the decoded reference resulting from the JSON

There are a few blind spots in my mind, but they're mostly due to me not trying this out to see what the resulting JSON looks like when FREEZE is invoked and to see how THAW might handle it. Note, these methods are called implicitly when you allow_tags.

In reply to Re: How to encode/decode a class inside a class in JSON by perlfan
in thread How to encode/decode a class inside a class in JSON by Nordikelt

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