NAME

       Catmandu::Serializer - Base class for all Catmandu Serializers

SYNOPSIS

           package Catmandu::Serializer::Foo;

           use Moo;

           sub serialize {
               my ($self,$data) = @_;
               .. transform the data to a string and return it...
           }

           sub deserialize {
               my ($self,$string) = @_;
               ... transform the string into a perl hash ...
           }

           package MyPackage;

           use Moo;

           with 'Catmandu::Serializer';

           package main;

           my $pkg = MyPackage->new;

           my $string = $pkg->serialize({ foo => 'bar' });
           my $perl   = $pkg->deserialize($string);

           # Using Catmandu::Serializer::Foo
           my $pkg = MyPackage->new( serialization_format => 'Foo' );

           my $string = $pkg->serialize({ foo => 'bar' });
           my $perl   = $pkg->deserialize($string);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a convience class to send Perl hashes easily over the wire without having to
       instantiate a Catmandu::Importer and Catmandu::Exporter which are more suited for
       processing IO streams.

ATTRIBUTES

serialization_format

       The name of the package that serializes data.

serializer

       An instance of the package that serializes.

METHODS

   serialize($perl)
       Serialize a perl data structure into a string.

   deserialize($bytes)
       Deserialize bytes into a perl data structure.

SEE ALSO

       Catmandu::Store::DBI, Catmandu::Serializer::json, Catmandu::Serializer::storabe,
       Catmandu::Serializer::messagepack