--- CBOR-XS/XS.pm 2013/10/29 22:04:52 1.16 +++ CBOR-XS/XS.pm 2013/11/20 01:09:46 1.19 @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ use common::sense; -our $VERSION = 0.07; +our $VERSION = 0.08; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(encode_cbor decode_cbor); @@ -159,6 +159,53 @@ See SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS, below, for more info on why this is useful. +=item $cbor = $cbor->allow_unknown ([$enable]) + +=item $enabled = $cbor->get_allow_unknown + +If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then C will I throw an +exception when it encounters values it cannot represent in CBOR (for +example, filehandles) but instead will encode a CBOR C value. + +If C<$enable> is false (the default), then C will throw an +exception when it encounters anything it cannot encode as CBOR. + +This option does not affect C in any way, and it is recommended to +leave it off unless you know your communications partner. + +=item $cbor = $cbor->allow_sharable ([$enable]) + +=item $enabled = $cbor->get_allow_sharable + +If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then C will not double-encode +values that have been seen before (e.g. when the same object, such as an +array, is referenced multiple times), but instead will emit a reference to +the earlier value. + +This means that such values will only be encoded once, and will not result +in a deep cloning of the value on decode, in decoders supporting the value +sharing extension. + +Detecting shared values incurs a runtime overhead when values are encoded +that have a reference counter large than one, and might unnecessarily +increase the encoded size, as potentially shared values are encode as +sharable whether or not they are actually shared. + +At the moment, all shared values will be detected, even weird and unusual +cases, such as an array with multiple "copies" of the I scalar, +which are hard but not impossible to create in Perl (L for +example doesn't handle these cases). If this turns out ot be a performance +issue then future versions might limit the shared value detection to +references only. + +If C<$enable> is false (the default), then C will encode +exception when it encounters anything it cannot encode as CBOR. + +This option does not affect C in any way - shared values and +references will always be decoded properly if present. It is recommended +to leave it off unless you know your communications partner supports the +value sharing extensions to CBOR (http://cbor.schmorp.de/value-sharing). + =item $cbor_data = $cbor->encode ($perl_scalar) Converts the given Perl data structure (a scalar value) to its CBOR @@ -457,10 +504,10 @@ There is no way to distinguish CBOR from other formats programmatically. To make it easier to distinguish CBOR from other formats, the CBOR specification has a special "magic string" that can be -prepended to any CBOR string without changing it's meaning. +prepended to any CBOR string without changing its meaning. This string is available as C<$CBOR::XS::MAGIC>. This module does not -prepend this string tot he CBOR data it generates, but it will ignroe it +prepend this string to the CBOR data it generates, but it will ignore it if present, so users can prepend this string as a "file type" indicator as required. @@ -554,6 +601,44 @@ CBOR::XS::tag 24, encode_cbor [1, 2, 3]; +=head1 TAG HANDLING AND EXTENSIONS + +This section describes how this module handles specific tagged values and +extensions. If a tag is not mentioned here, then the default handling +applies (creating a CBOR::XS::Tagged object on decoding, and only encoding +the tag when explicitly requested). + +Future versions of this module reserve the right to special case +additional tags (such as bigfloat or base64url). + +=over 4 + +=item (perl-object, L) + +These tags are automatically created for serialisable objects using the +C methods (the L object serialisation +protocol). + +=item , (sharable, sharedref, L ) + +These tags are automatically decoded when encountered, resulting in +shared values in the decoded object. They are only encoded, however, when +C is enabled. + +=item 22098 (indirection, L) + +This tag is automatically generated when a reference are encountered (with +the exception of hash and array refernces). It is converted to a reference +when decoding. + +=item 55799 (self-describe CBOR, RFC 7049) + +This value is not generated on encoding (unless explicitly requested by +the user), and is simply ignored when decoding. + +=back + + =head1 CBOR and JSON CBOR is supposed to implement a superset of the JSON data model, and is,