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- It is the only approach which allows you to directly serialize the nested hash strcture to file and back through a seamless interface.
- It is implemented in C which should give some performance advantage over the other two modules implemented in Perl.
I I have already tested this approach in JKFlow and it successfully marshalls and unmarshalls the complex nested hash based data strcutures in JKFlow by simply passing a reference to the root of the nested structure to its component sub-routines. Follwoing is the description of how to use the module.
Usage of the Storable Module
Storable is a C extension module for serializing data directly to files and is the fastest of the three approaches. The store function takes a reference to a data structure (the root) and the name of a file. The retrieve method does the converse: given a filename, it returns the root:
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Storable is a C extension module for serializing data directly to files and is the fastest of the three approaches. The store function takes a reference to a data structure (the root) and the name of a file. The retrieve method does the converse: given a filename, it returns the root:
use Storable;
$a = [100, 200, {'foo' => 'bar'}];
eval {
store($a, 'test.dat');
};
print "Error writing to file: $@" if $@;
$a = retrieve('test.dat');
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If
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you
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have
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more
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than
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one
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structure
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to
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stuff
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into
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a
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file,
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simply
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put
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all
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of
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them
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in
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an
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anonymous
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array
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and
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pass
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this
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array's
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reference
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to
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store.
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You
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can
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pass
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an
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open
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filehandle
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to
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store_fd
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instead
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of
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giving
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a
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filename
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to
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store.
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The
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functions
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nstore
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and
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nstore_fd
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can
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be
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used
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for
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storing
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the
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data
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in
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"network"
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order,
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making
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the
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data
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machine-independent.
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When
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you
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use
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retrieve
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or
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retrieve_fd,
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the
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data
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is
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automatically
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converted
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back
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to
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the
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native
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machine
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format
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(while
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storing,
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the
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module
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storesa flag
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indicating
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whether
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it
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has
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stored
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it
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in
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a
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machine-independent
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format
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or
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not).
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