Jifty:...orable(3pm)

💖 Jifty::DBI::Filter::Storable 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because this is genuinely one of those little modules that does one thing and does it immaculately. the manual name is Jifty::DBI::Filter::Storable and it lives in section 3pm of the perl docs, iykyk.

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✨ NAME ✨

Jifty::DBI::Filter::Storable — Encodes arbitrary data using Storable 🎀

like. that's the whole job. and she ate.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the vibe here is: this filter lets you stash arbitrary Perl data structures inside a column of type blob 💅 and the way it pulls that off is by handing the whole thing over to Storable to serialize it. no cap, that's it. your weird nested hash-of-arrays-of-objects? your extremely unhinged data structure you built at 3am? she'll hold it for you 🫶

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🦋 encode 🦋

if the value is defined, then it gets encoded using nfreeze in Storable ✨

and if the value is not defined? she simply does nothing. does not touch it. does not move. not me being unbothered 💀

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🌈 decode 🌈

if the value is defined, then it gets decoded using thaw in Storable 🌸

otherwise? nothing happens. otherwise she does nothing. periodt. 🎀

fr fr this is the round trip — nfreeze on the way in, thaw on the way out. iconic behavior tbh.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Jifty::DBI::Filter — the parent situation, the blueprint, the main character 👑
• Storable — the actual muscle behind the whole operation 🔥

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perl v5.34.0 · 2022-06-15 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie — documented, dated, and delivered with love. go forth and store your arbitrary data structures responsibly 💖✨🌸