DBI::Go...r::Base(3)

💖 DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base 💖

okay bestie, welcome to DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base — she's the base class for Gofer serialization, and honestly? she's the blueprint every other serializer in this lil family is built on. the icon, the blueprint, the mother of the whole squad ✨

she lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, if you were wondering where to find her 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base — base class for Gofer serialization 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the whole vibe check in code form, copy it exactly bestie:

    $serializer = $serializer_class->new();

    $string = $serializer->serialize( $data );
    ($string, $deserializer_class) = $serializer->serialize( $data );

    $data = $serializer->deserialize( $string );

so you make a new one, you serialize your data (and psst — sometimes you get two things back, the string and the deserializer class 👀), and deserialize turns a string back into your data. flips both ways, periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea. the DBI::Gofer::Serializer::* classes implement a very minimal subset of the Data::Serializer API. not the whole thing. not even close. just a tiny lil slice of it, and that's on purpose 💖

and listen — Gofer serializers are expected to be very fast ⚡ like, speed is the whole point, main character energy only. they are not required to deal with anything other than:

• non-blessed references to arrays 🍓
• non-blessed references to hashes 🎀
• plain scalars ⭐

that's it. that's the menu. no blessed stuff, no wild exotic types — if you were hoping for more, that's a different class, bestie 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO

nothing else to link here babe, the original keeps it tight 🧚

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this page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-19, and it's filed under DBI::Go...r::Base(3) 💜

okay bye ily, go serialize something cute 💅✨🦋