CGI::S...e::yaml(3pm)

💖 CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml — the serializer bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's all about CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml, a serializer for CGI::Session. pull up a chair, we're doing this ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml — literally just a serializer for CGI::Session. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

sooooo this library is the one you call when you want CGI::Session to serialize your session data. it uses YAML, or if the faster C implementation YAML::Syck is hanging around, it'll use that instead. slay, efficiency. 💅

and here's the iconic part: YAML serializers aren't just a Perl thing, bestie. they exist for other dynamic languages too — think PHP, Python, and Ruby — so if you store your session data in this format, sharing session data across different languages is lowkey effortless. it's giving ✨interoperability✨.

YAML was made to be friendly for humans to parse and for other computer languages to parse. it creates a format that's way easier to read than the default serializer. no cap, your eyeballs will thank you. 👀💖

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 freeze($class, \%hash)

Receives two arguments. First one is the class name, second one is the data to be serialized. on success it should return the serialized string, and on failure it should return undef. if something goes wrong, the error message should be set using set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()". periodt. 💅

💜 thaw($class, $string)

Received two arguments. First is the class name, second is the YAML data string. on success it should return the thawed data structure, and on failure it should return undef. and again, when it fails, the error message should be set using set_error()|CGI::Session::ErrorHandler/"set_error()". you got this, bestie. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• CGI::Session
• YAML
• YAML::Syck

go read those, iykyk 📚✨

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a lil reminder from your favorite narrator: freeze returns the serialized string or undef, thaw returns the thawed data structure or undef, and both set errors via set_error() when things go sideways. keep that in your notes app fr fr. 📝

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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 👑 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-01-22, straight from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. love u, bye bestie!! 💖✨🦋🌸🎀💅🫶