Thanks for jumping into the discussion! :) It's always great to hear from a maintainer.

I'm curious why BSON may not be the right choice. If passing a raw scalar or array is problematic, wouldn't this be a reasonable solution?

encode({data => $some_scalar});

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Whether $some_scalar contains an array ref, a hash ref, or a flat scalar, encode would still see it as a hash based document.

But I don't have a lot of experience with BSON. I remember seeing it presented a few years ago at a PerlMongers meeting in So. Cal, and it stuck in my head as a more portable solution for data serialization when the data might contain binary elements.

I was a little surprised to see that there is no (documented) "TO_BSON" means of providing serialization procedures for objects. Is there any plan for that sort of hook in the future?

(Sorry to hijack the thread!)


Dave

In reply to Re^4: Serialise to binary? by davido
in thread Serialise to binary? by sectokia

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