Re: [CDBI] Using freeze/thaw to munge a column value.

> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:45 -0700, George Hartzell wrote:

Perrin Harkins writes:
 > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:45 -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
 > > I want to create a simple class that maps to a two-column table, with
 > > a key and a value (something to pass args around in Mason components,
 > > since sessions don't behave well).
 > [...]
 > > Does anyone have a simpleton's example?
 > 
 > This was my solution, for passing parameters to a job queue system that
 > keeps state in the database.  Probably could be more efficient.
 > 
 > __PACKAGE__->has_a(
 >     'parameters' => 'Arcos::DB::Job::Serialized',
 >     inflate => sub { Arcos::DB::Job::Serialized->inflate(shift) },
 >     deflate => sub {
 >         Arcos::DB::Job::Serialized->deflate(shift);
 > });
 > 
 > # define simple in-line class to handle serializing parameters
 > BEGIN {
 > 
 >     package Arcos::DB::Job::Serialized;
 >     use Storable;
 > 
 >     sub inflate {
 >         my ($class, $serialized) = @_;
 >         my $hashref = Storable::thaw($serialized);
 >         bless $hashref, $class;
 >         return $hashref;
 >     }
 > 
 >     sub deflate {
 >         my ($class, $hashref) = @_;
 >         my $serialized = Storable::nfreeze($hashref);
 >         return $serialized;
 >     }
 > }

Thanks!

That almost worked for me.  I ended up base64 {en,de}coding the
scalar that Storable returned to me, someone somewhere in the chain
between my code and sqlite was treating it as a string and truncating
it at its first null.

After that small change, it works well.

g.

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