NAME

Data::BISON::Decoder - Decode a BISON encoded data structure.

VERSION

This document describes Data::BISON::Decoder version 0.0.3

SYNOPSIS

  use Data::BISON::Decoder;

  my $dec = Data::BISON::Decoder->new;

  my $struct = $dec->decode( $bison_encoded_data );

DESCRIPTION

BISON is a binary format for language independent serialisation of data. You can find Kai Jäger's original description of it here:

http://www.kaijaeger.com/articles/introducing-bison-binary-interchange-standard.html

INTERFACE

new

Create a new Data::BISON::Encoder.

decode

Decode BISON serialized data. The data to be decoded may optionally have been yEnc encoded; decode will detect this and perform the appropriate decoding.

The returned value is a scalar, hash reference or array reference.

DIAGNOSTICS

Unrecognised BISON data (no signature found)

You attempted to decode data that didn't start with the BISON signature 'FMB'.

Unrecognised object type %s at offset %s in data stream

The BISON parser found a syntax error at the specified offset in the data.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Data::BISON::Decoder requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-data-bison@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>

Kai Jäger (http://www.kaijaeger.com) designed BISON and wrote the Javascript and PHP implementations.

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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