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💅 CGI::Session::Serialize::default(3) 💅

okay so before we even get into it — this page is the User Contributed Perl Documentation for CGI::Session::Serialize::default, bestie. like that's the manual name, that's the whole vibe. and it's literally the default CGI::Session serializer, which is exactly as iconic as it sounds 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

CGI::Session::Serialize::default — the Default CGI::Session serializer. no cap, that's the name, that's the function, that's the whole personality 🌈

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this library right here? it's the one the CGI::Session driver pulls in to serialize session data before it gets stored on disk. that's it, that's the job, and it does it flawlessly 💅

not me about to tell you the most important part though — all the methods are called as class methods. yes, all of them. class methods. don't come at me calling them like they're instance methods, it's giving "not that" 🙈

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🦋 METHODS 🦋

freeze($class, \%hash)

okay bestie, freeze takes two arguments:

• the first one is the class name 👑
• the second one is the data to be serialized

and on success it should return the serialized string 🎀 on failure it returns undef, obviously. and when it fails you gotta set the error message using set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()" — iykyk, don't leave a girl hanging with no error message 😭

thaw($class, $string)

and now thaw, the reverse queen ✨ she also receives two arguments:

• first: the class name
• second: the frozen data string

on success she should return the thawed data structure 🫶 on failure, undef — and again, error message gets set using set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()". periodt 💅

lowkey important: both of these are described as "should return … on success, undef on failure" and "error message should be set using set_error()" — that's straight from the source, so treat it like a rule, not a suggestion 👑

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⭐ LICENSING ⭐

for support and licensing, go see CGI::Session 🦋 that's where all that lives, bestie 🌸

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and that's the page!! perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-07-28 — mwah, caught you up, go serialize something cute 💖 🎀 ✨