Storing code references

[Steven Haryanto]

Hi,

Any advice on storing code references using CHI? My module is
generating subroutine wrappers, and I'm caching a certain number of
these in memory. I usually use Tie::Cache for this kind of task, but
am considering CHI for (potentially) more flexibility. However, the
CHI interface passes flat binary string to the backend, so I guess CHI
is not appropriate in this case?

But I'm thinking a whole class of cases where the cache data is not
serializable. Perhaps something simple like a wrapper or an API can be
created for this?

Regards,
Steven

[Jonathan Swartz]

Hi Steven,

CHI::Driver::RawMemory (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/?CHI::Driver::RawMemory) stores actual references in memory, without serializing.

Jon

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[Steven Haryanto]

Hi Jon,

Ah, should've read the docs a bit more. Was thrown off by this
statement in CHI's pod: "CHI handles its own serialization, passing a
flat binary string to the underlying cache backend." Thanks!

Regards,
Steven

[Perrin Harkins]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Steven Haryanto
<stevenh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any advice on storing code references using CHI?

My advice is to run the other direction as fast as you can, but if you
really want to, there are hooks in Storable that let you choose how to
serialize your objects.

- Perrin

[Jonathan Swartz]

Or, he can use CHI::Driver::RawMemory. :)

[Jonathan Swartz]

Yup, I'll mention this exception in the documentation. Thanks.