Apache...Sybase(3pm)

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💖 Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase — yeah it's a Perl module (that's the 3pm vibe, it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, iykyk). Sit down, hydrate, let's get into it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase — the way this works is it uses Storable to zip up your persistent data, then unpacks/packs it so it can go live inside a Sybase-compatible IMAGE field. iconic, honestly. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase;

$zipped = Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase::serialize($ref);
$ref = Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase::unserialize($zipped);

that's it, that's the whole entrance. you call serialize with your $ref and get $zipped back, or you call unserialize with your $zipped and get your $ref back. main character round trip. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this module fulfills the serialization interface of Apache::Session by taking the data from Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable and modifying it so it actually works with Sybase IMAGE fields. it's giving "glow up for the database". 💖

Couple things you NEED to know, no cap:

  • you do not need to quote these values before inserting them into the database. skip that step, it's not needed. 🎀
  • but if you're using DBI::Sybase, you cannot use the data in a placeholder. like, that's a hard no. 🚫

and the best part? if you use Apache::Session::Sybase as your session class, literally all of this gets taken care of for you. obsessed. you don't have to do a single thing. 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Real ones behind this:

  • Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable was written by Jeffrey William Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
  • the Sybase-specific data manipulation was written by Mark Landry <mdlandry@lincoln.midcoast.com>, originally for use in an earlier version of Apache::Session::DBI::Sybase
  • and it was placed here by Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>

collab of the century, fr fr. 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable
  • Apache::Session::Sybase

go read those next, bestie, they're the supporting cast and they ate. 🔥

and that's the whole page!! this one's from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-19, and yeah the page footer says Apache...Sybase(3pm) in case you were wondering where you are. mwah, bye!! 💅✨🎀

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