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6 Data::Taxi - Taint-aware, XML-ish data serialization
7 PLEASE NOTE: Data::Taxi is no longer being developed or supported.
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11 use Data::Taxi ':all';
12 my ($ob, $str);
13 $ob = MyClass->new();
15 $str = freeze($ob);
16 $ob = thaw($str);
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19 Data::Taxi can be installed with the usual routine:
20 perl Makefile.PL
22 make
23 make test
24 make install
25 You can also just copy Taxi.pm into the Data/ directory of one of your
27 library trees.
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30 Taxi (Taint-Aware XML-Ish) is a data serializer with several handy
31 features:
32 Taint aware
34 Taxi does not force you to trust the data you are serializing.
35 None of the input data is executed.
36 Human readable
38 Taxi produces a human-readable string that simplifies checking the
39 output of your objects.
40 XML-ish
42 While I don't (currently) promise full XML compliance, Taxi
43 produces a block of XML-ish data that could probably be read in by
44 other XML parsers.
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47 None by default. freeze and thaw with ':all':
48 use Data::Taxi ':all';
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52 freeze($ob, %opts)
53 "freeze" serializes a single scalar, hash reference, array reference,
54 or scalar reference into an XML string, "freeze" can recurse any number
55 of levels of a nested tree and preserve multiple references to the same
56 object. Let's look at an example:
57 my ($tree, $format, $members, $bool, $mysca);
59 # anonymous hash
61 $format = {
62 'app'=>'trini',
63 'ver'=>'0.9',
64 'ver'=>'this & that',
65 };
66 # anonymous array
68 $members = ['Starflower', 'Mary', 'Paul', 'Hallie', 'Ryan'];
69 # blessed object
71 $bool = Math::BooleanEval->new('whatever');
72 # scalar reference (to an anonymous hash, no less)
74 $mysca = {'name'=>'miko', 'email'=>'miko@idocs.com', };
75 # the whole thing
77 $tree = {
78 'dataformat' => $format,
79 'otherdataformat' => $format,
80 'bool' => $bool,
81 'members' => $members,
82 'myscaref' => \$mysca,
83 };
84 $frozen = freeze($tree);
86 "freeze" accepts one object as input. The code above results in the
88 following XML-ish string:
89 <taxi ver="1.00">
91 <hashref id="0">
92 <hashref name="otherdataformat" id="1">
93 <scalar name="ver" value="this &amp; that"/>
94 <scalar name="app" value="trini"/>
95 </hashref>
96 <scalarref name="myscaref" id="2">
97 <hashref id="3">
98 <scalar name="email" value="miko@idocs.com"/>
99 <scalar name="name" value="miko"/>
100 </hashref>
101 </scalarref>
102 <hashref name="bool" id="4" class="Math::BooleanEval">
103 <hashref name="blanks" id="5">
104 </hashref>
105 <scalar name="pos" value="0"/>
106 <arrayref name="arr" id="6">
107 <scalar value="whatever"/>
108 </arrayref>
109 <scalar name="expr" value="whatever"/>
110 </hashref>
111 <hashref name="dataformat" id="1" redundant="1"/>
112 <arrayref name="members" id="7">
113 <scalar value="Starflower"/>
114 <scalar value="Mary"/>
115 <scalar value="Paul"/>
116 <scalar value="Hallie"/>
117 <scalar value="Ryan"/>
118 </arrayref>
119 </hashref>
120 </taxi>
121 thaw
123 "thaw" accepts one argument, the serialized data string, and returns a
124 single value, the reconstituted data, rebuilding the entire data
125 structure including blessed references.
126 $tree = thaw($frozen);
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130 Although Taxi's data format is XML-ish, it's not fully compliant to XML
131 in all regards. For now, Taxi only promises that it can input its own
132 output. The reason I didn't go for full XML compliance is that I
133 wanted to keep Taxi as light as possible while achieving its main goal
134 in life: pure-perl serialization. XML compliance is not part of that
135 goal. If you want to help make Taxi fully XML compliant w/o making it
136 bloated, that's cool, drop me an email and we can work together.
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139 Tied scalars don't work. The code started getting spaghettish trying
140 to implement them, so I decided to use the Asimov method and stop
141 thinking about it for a while. Tied hashes and arrays should work
142 fine.
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145 Copyright (c) 2002 by Miko O'Sullivan. All rights reserved. This
146 program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
147 under the same terms as Perl itself. This software comes with NO
148 WARRANTY of any kind.
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151 Miko O'Sullivan miko@idocs.com
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154 Version 0.90 June 15, 2002
155 initial public release
156 Version 0.91 July 10, 2002
158 minor improvment to documentation
159 Version 0.94 April 26, 2003
161 Fixed problem handling undefined scalars.
162 Version 0.95 Oct 31, 2008
164 Adding notice of last release
165 Version 0.96 Nov 14, 2010
167 Fixing bug:
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170 Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
171 below:
172 Around line 684:
174 =end CPAN without matching =begin. (Stack: [empty])
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