[Cgi-session-user] CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml

[Tyler M. <ty...@yi...>]

YAML is a notation that represents classes, objects, arrays, hashes, and
scalars. Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, and other languages can serialize to and
=66rom YAML.

I have written a very simple CGI::Session::Serialize class that serializes
to/from YAML:

http://search.cpan.org/~CRAKRJACK/CGI-Session-Serialize-yaml-1.0/lib/CGI/Se=
ssion/Serialize/yaml.pm

It uses the fast C-based YAML::Syck when available, or the pure-perl YAML.pm
otherwise.

Combining this serializer with, say, a MySQL or Postgres driver opens up the
door for CGI::Session objects to be shared with other dynamic languages. I'm
currently using this for a project that is going to have a mod_perl2
low-level authentication backend, but possibly some PHP pages in the actual
webspace.

I'd really like to see something like this make it into the main
CGI::Session distribution. Working with multiple languages at once is
becoming more and more common. I uploaded it to CPAN mainly because I'm
going to be releasing a module that needs it soon; if a YAML serializer
makes it into CGI::Session itself (a non-dev release), I'd remove mine from
CPAN and update my module to depend on the latest CGI::Session.

	Thanks,
		Tyler