NAME

       Jifty::DBI::Filter::YAML - This filter stores arbitrary Perl via YAML

SYNOPSIS

         use Jifty::DBI::Record schema {
             column my_data =>
                 type is 'text',
                 filters are qw/ Jifty::DBI::Filter::YAML /;
         };

         my $thing = __PACKAGE__->new;
         $thing->create( my_data => { foo => 'bar', baz => [ 1, 2, 3 ] } );

         my $my_data = $thing->my_data;
         while (my ($key, $value) = %$my_data) {
             # do something...
         }

DESCRIPTION

       This filter provides the ability to store arbitrary data structures into a database column
       using YAML. This is very similar to the Jifty::DBI::Filter::Storable filter except that
       the YAML format remains human-readable in the database. You can store virtually any Perl
       data, scalar, hash, array, or object into the database using this filter.

       In addition, YAML (at least the storage of scalars, hashes, and arrays) is compatible with
       data structures written in other languages, so you may store or read data between
       applications written in different languages.

METHODS

   encode
       This method is used to encode the Perl data structure into YAML formatted text.

   decode
       This method is used to decode the YAML formatted text from the database into the Perl data
       structure.

IMPLEMENTATION

       This class will attempt to use YAML::Syck if it is available and then fall back upon YAML.
       This has been done because the Syck library is written in C and is considerably faster.

SEE ALSO

       Jifty::DBI::Filter, YAML, YAML::Syck

AUTHOR

       Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp <hanenkamp@cpan.org>

LICENSE

       This program is free software and may be modified or distributed under the same terms as
       Perl itself.