Sereal(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Sereal(3)
NAME
Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
SYNOPSIS
use Sereal qw(
get_sereal_decoder
get_sereal_encoder
clear_sereal_object_cache
encode_sereal
decode_sereal
read_sereal
read_sereal_file
write_sereal
write_sereal_file
looks_like_sereal
scalar_looks_like_sereal
sereal_encode_with_object
sereal_decode_with_object
decode_sereal_with_header_data
sereal_decode_with_header_with_object
sereal_decode_only_header_with_object
sereal_decode_only_header_with_offset_with_object
sereal_decode_with_header_and_offset_with_object
sereal_decode_with_offset_with_object
SRL_UNCOMPRESSED
SRL_SNAPPY
SRL_ZLIB
SRL_ZSTD
);
# Note: For performance reasons, you should prefer the OO interface,
# or sereal_(en|de)code_with_object over the stateless
# encode_sereal/decode_sereal functions.
# See the Sereal::Performance documentation for details.
DESCRIPTION
Sereal is an efficient, compact-output, binary and feature-rich
serialization protocol. The Perl encoder is implemented as the
Sereal::Encoder module, the Perl decoder correspondingly as
Sereal::Decoder. They are distributed separately to allow for safe
upgrading without downtime. (Hint: Upgrade the decoder everywhere
first, then the encoder.)
This "Sereal" module is a very thin wrapper around both
"Sereal::Encoder" and "Sereal::Decoder". It depends on both and loads
both. So if you have a user of both encoder and decoder, it is enough
to depend on a particular version of "Sereal" and you'll get the most
recent released versions of "Sereal::Encoder" and "Sereal::Decoder"
whose version is smaller than or equal to the version of "Sereal" you
depend on.
The protocol specification and many other bits of documentation can be
found in the github repository. Right now, the specification is at
<https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/blob/master/sereal_spec.pod>, there
is a discussion of the design objectives in
<https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/blob/master/README.pod>, and the
output of our benchmarks can be seen at
<https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/wiki/Sereal-Comparison-Graphs>.
EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
It is recommended to use the object-oriented interface of
"Sereal::Encoder" and "Sereal::Decoder" if you care about performance.
For detailed performance considerations, see Sereal::Performance.
You can optionally import five functions from "Sereal".
"encode_sereal" is the same function as Sereal::Encoder's
"encode_sereal" function. "decode_sereal" and "looks_like_sereal" are
the same as Sereal::Decoder's functions of the same names. Finally,
you can import the advanced functional interface
"sereal_encode_with_object" and "sereal_decode_with_object". Again,
see Sereal::Performance for information about those.
After loading the "Sereal" module, both "Sereal::Encoder" and
"Sereal::Decoder" are guaranteed to be loaded, so you can use their
object-oriented interface.
get_sereal_encoder($OPTSHASH)
Returns a Sereal::Encoder with the given options. This encoder will be
shared by other calls to this function.
get_sereal_decoder($OPTSHASH)
Returns a Sereal::Decoder with the given options. This encoder will be
shared by other calls to this function.
clear_sereal_object_cache
Clears cache of objects created via get_sereal_encoder() and
get_sereal_decoder(). Returns the number of objects that were removed
from the cache (the sum of both types).
write_sereal_file($FILENAME,$STRUCT,$APPEND,$OPTS)
Write a sereal packet to $FILENAME. See
Sereal::Encoder::encode_to_file().
Sereal(3)
alias for write_sereal_file()
read_sereal_file($FILENAME,$OPTS,$ROOT)
Read a sereal packet from a file. See
Sereal::Decoder::decode_from_file().
Sereal(3)
alias for read_sereal_file()
BUGS, CONTACT AND SUPPORT
For reporting bugs, please use the github bug tracker at
<http://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/issues>.
For support and discussion of Sereal, there are two Google Groups:
Announcements around Sereal (extremely low volume):
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/sereal-announce>
Sereal development list:
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/sereal-dev>
AUTHOR
Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This module was originally developed for Booking.com. With approval
from Booking.com, this module was generalized and published on CPAN,
for which the authors would like to express their gratitude.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2012, 2013, 2014 by Steffen Mueller
perl v5.28.1 2019-04-09 Sereal(3)
sereal-decoder 4.7.0 - Generated Thu Apr 11 20:23:44 CDT 2019