CGI::Se...eezethaw(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for CGI::Session::Serialize::freezethaw(3) — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's here to explain one very specific serializer. 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

CGI::Session::Serialize::freezethaw — a serializer for CGI::Session. slay. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This library can be used by CGI::Session to serialize session data. It uses FreezeThaw. that's the whole vibe: session data gets serialized, and FreezeThaw is the icon doing the work. 🧚🦋

🛠️ METHODS 🛠️

Two methods, bestie — and they have very specific jobs. 👑

🧊 freeze($class, \%hash) 🧊

Receives two arguments, fr fr. The first is the class name. The second is the data to be serialized — the signature shows it as \%hash.

On success it should return the serialized string. On failure it should return undef, no cap. And the error message should be set using "set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()"" — that's the exact string, don't improvise. 😭

🌡️ thaw($class, $string) 🌡️

Receives two arguments too. The first is the class name, and the second is the frozen data string.

On success it should return the thawed data structure. On failure it should return undef. Same error-message situation as above: set it using "set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()"". periodt. 💅

📜 LICENSING 📜

For support and licensing, see CGI::Session. that's the whole section, bestie — short and iconic. 🫶🌈

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