[Dbix-class] RFC: DBIx::Class::JSON

[J. Shirley]

Hi Nilson,

How is it coming along with this?  I'd love to be a second set of
eyes/hands on it.  Just holler at me if there is anything I can do to
help.

Thanks,
-J

On 9/18/06, Robert Dobbs <bobisdobbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From: "Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior" <acid06 at gmail.com>
> >Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:46:49 -0300
> >
> >On 9/15/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> > > I think what I'd like to see is a general serialization interface that
> >plugins
> > > can be written for. Something like
> > >
> >
> >Looks good. The main problem I think is how to properly serialize
> >everything (e.g. DateTime objects). Also, how'd you restrict what
> >fields would be serialized or not?
>
> If the field already has inflate/deflate, why not deflate it before storage
> in the serialized construct?  So the DateTime object attached to your $foo
> will become the terse database value instead of page after page of DateTime
> dump.  And when de-serialized, it runs all fields of the class through any
> available inflators.
>
> Or, if another set of 'flators could be specified for a field, would it be
> possible to build a Javascript Date object into the JSON construct, for
> example?  Some way to put in a javascript eval literal "new Date(
> ".join(',', map $dt->$_, qw( year month day hours minute second millisecond
> ) )." ); ";   # ... or something.
>
> Hrmm, well maybe it is easier to keep the terse deflated value in the JSON
> thing, and in your Javascript application you could write functions to throw
> your objects through that inflate them back into Javascript objects of other
> types.
>
> But then you've got to do JS pattern matches and it could be easier when you
> start with the inflated object on the perl side.
>
> Mark
>
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