NAME

Data::JavaScript - Perl extension for dumping structures into JavaScript code

SYNOPSIS

use Data::JavaScript;

@code = jsdump('my_array', $array_ref);
$code = jsdump('my_object', $hash_ref);
$code = hjsdump('my_stuff', $array_ref B<or> $hash_ref);

DESCRIPTION

This module is aimed mainly for CGI programming, when a perl script generates a page with client side JavaScript code that needs access to structures created on the server.

It works by creating one line of JavaScript code per datum. Therefore, structures cannot be created anonymously and needed to be assigned to variables. This enables dumping big structures.

The first arguement is a hashref or arrayref. Structures can be nested, circular referrencing is supported EXPERIMENTALLY only. The second argument is the name of JavaScript object to create.

hsdump also dumps HTML tags to embed the scriplet inside an HTML page.

When called in array context, the functions return an array of code lines. When called in scalar context, it returns one chunk of lines delimited by line fields.

AUTHOR

Ariel Brosh, schop@cpan.org. Inspired by WDDX.pm JavaScript support.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), WDDX.