You may already be aware of this, but I saw it mentioned neither in this thread nor the previous one you linked to. There is one major pitfall with using something like Data::Dumper or Storable for object serialization: it only grabs what's in the blessed data structure.

It's perfectly possible, reasonable, and some even would say preferable, to store object data outside of the blessed reference. For example, lexical variables captured by closures within the object. This includes the very nice inside-out object technique.

That means there's no fool-proof, general purpose way to serialize objects in Perl. Granted, most modules probably strictly adhere to their blessed reference, but it's certainly a caveat you should be aware of.

In reply to Re: Getting back $object from eval(Dumper($object)) by revdiablo
in thread Getting back $object from eval(Dumper($object)) by tphyahoo

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