AnyEve...rialize(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

AnyEvent::Serialize — async serialize/deserialize function, bestie!! it's giving non-blocking, it's giving fixed-size chunks, it's giving everything ✨

(this one lives in the 3pm corner of your friendly neighbourhood User Contributed Perl Documentation, just so u know 🫶)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so first u gotta import it, and there's options, and i'm obsessed:

use AnyEvent::Serialize ':all';
use AnyEvent::Serialize 'serialize';
use AnyEvent::Serialize 'deserialize';
use AnyEvent::Serialize ... block_size => 666;

serialize $object, sub { ($str, $recursion_detected) = @_ };
deserialize $string, sub { my ($object, $error, $tail) = @_ }

no cap, block_size => 666 is right there in the docs and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Sometimes You need to serialize/deserialize a lot of data. and like. if You do it using Data::Dumper or eval, it can take You wayyy too much time. 💀 not the vibe.

so this module splits the (de)serialization process into fixed-size parts and does all that work in non-blocking mode. main character energy fr fr. 🌈

and it's not doing this alone — it uses Data::StreamSerializer and Data::StreamDeserializer to serialize or deserialize Your data. dream team. 👑

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💅 EXPORT 💅

serialize($object, $result_callback)

Serializes Your object. When serialization is done it will call $result_callback. 🦋

This callback receives two arguments:

• the result string
• a flag if recursion is detected

deserialize($str, $result_callback)

Deserializes Your string. When deserialization is done or an error is detected it will call $result_callback. 🙈

This callback receives three arguments:

• the deserialized object
• the error string (if an error was occured)
• the undeserialized string tail

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🔥 BREAKING 🔥

You can break the serialization/deserialization process if You save the value that is returned by the functions serialize/deserialize. They return guards if they are called in non-void context. save that guard, hold onto it, and u can yeet the whole operation whenever. 💅

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Data::StreamSerializer
• Data::StreamDeserializer

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dmitry E. Oboukhov, <unera@debian.org>

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

Copyright (C) 2011 by Dmitry E. Oboukhov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, u ate it up fr fr 💖 this was AnyEve...rialize(3pm) from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-06-19 — periodt, go serialize something ✨🌸🦋