Dearest wise monks

I am just starting with oo perl, read your excellent introductions on referencing, but still there's not enough light coming out of my brain :-)

I am populating an object with the attributes 'head', 'opinion', 'result' like this:

my $item = Item->new("something","another thing","the essence");

When I dump the object (with Data::Dumper) I get:

$VAR1 = bless( {
      'head' => 'something',
      'opinion' => 'another thing',
      'result' => 'the essence'
    }, 'Item' );

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How can I get the whole contents of $item (all between the curly brackets)? I know how to get the single elements... but not the whole object.

The aim is to index it with elasticsearch:

$e->index(
    index   => $index,
    type    => $type,
    id      => $id,
    body    => {
        head    => $head,
        opinion   => $opinion,
        result => $result,
    }
);

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and I want to replace the "body" with my item

Thanks a lot in advance for any enlightenment!

MCS

In reply to beginner's question regarding objects by McSvenster

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