Re^2: Why is Dumper showing decoded JSON booleans like this?

Okay. That makes sense. I guess my problem then becomes something different which is when using PHP::Serialization to serialize the decoded json text:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use JSON;
use PHP::Serialization qw(serialize unserialize);

my $json_text ='{ "boolean": true }';
my $json_text_decoded = decode_json $json_text;
serialize($json_text_decoded);
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OUTPUT:

Not a HASH reference at lib/PHP/Serialization.pm line 454.

It dies when working on the object data type. Is there a straightforward way to convert the boolean object to a literal string?

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Re^3: Why is Dumper showing decoded JSON booleans like this? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 03, 2010 at 20:18 UTC
You'll have to traverse the returned data structure, using JSON::is_bool to check for boolean nodes, replacing boolean nodes with the values of your choice. If PHP::Serialization supported custom object serializers, you could just write one of those for JSON::PP::Boolean, but it doesn't appear to be the case.	[reply]
Re^4: Why is Dumper showing decoded JSON booleans like this? by nleaman (Initiate) on Mar 04, 2010 at 21:01 UTC
Thank you for your guidance. This is exactly the help I needed.	[reply]