Jifty:...Boolean(3pm)

✨ Jifty::DBI::Filter::Boolean 💅

okay bestie, so this is Jifty::DBI::Filter::Boolean, a lil Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and its whole job is literally just encoding booleans 🎀 like that's it, that's the gig, and it ate 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

She's a filter, she takes your values, and she makes sure that Perl's concept of the value and the database's concept of the value are not beefing with each other. Two methods, both iconic, both essential. Let's get into it 🦋

🫶 decode

Transforms the value into 1 or 0, so that Perl's concept of the value agrees with the database's concept of the value. 😤

the way that this matters... okay so picture it: the database might be out here using 't' and 'f' for its booleans, but plot twist 💀 — in Perl, 'f' is TRUE. yeah. literally the opposite of what you'd expect. so decode swoops in and fixes the whole situation so everybody's on the same page. no cap.

🧚 encode

Transforms the value to the canonical true or false value as expected by the database. ✨

like, she takes whatever chaotic lil value you hand her and returns the exact flavor of true/false that the database is expecting. respectful. considerate. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Jifty::DBI::Filter — the parent filter, the blueprint, the blueprint bestie, go read it too 🍓

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perl v5.34.0 · 2022-06-15 — mwah, that's the whole page, thanks for coming to my ted talk, go forth and filter ur booleans responsibly 💜✨🦋