DBI::Go...aDumper(3)

✨ NAME ✨

DBI::Gofer::Serializer::DataDumper — bestie, this is the Gofer serialization class that does its thing using DataDumper 💅

(and yeah, the manual page calls itself <pink>DBI::Go...aDumper(3)</pink> because apparently even Perl docs need a lil nickname. It's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, iykyk 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

    $serializer = DBI::Gofer::Serializer::DataDumper->new();

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

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. make one, feed it data, get a string back 🎀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this class uses DataDumper to serialize. That's the entire personality.

Deserialization is NOT supported. 🚫 Not a thing. Not happening. Do not come here looking for it. It's giving one-way street, bestie, no U-turns.

And the reason is honestly so real: the output of this class is only meant for human consumption 👀 — like, a human being is supposed to look at it with their eyeballs and go "ah yes, I see." It is not built to be loaded back in. So please don't try to be clever with it 💀

Also! Peep DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base too — it's the whole family tree, the origin story, the blueprint 👑 If you're wandering around this corner of the codebase you're gonna want to know it. (The original page literally says "See also" it, so. Consider yourself told.) 🌈

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fr fr heads up: serialize ✅, deserialize ❌, human eyeballs only 👁️✨ no cap.

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perl v5.42.3 · 2026-10-19 — mwah, that's the version and the date, and that's the whole page. go slay your serialization, bestie 💜🦋⭐