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 package CBOR::XS;
 use common::sense;
-our $VERSION = 1.12;
+our $VERSION = 1.4;
 our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 our @EXPORT = qw(encode_cbor decode_cbor);
 use Exporter;
 isn't prepared for this will not leak memory.
 If C<$enable> is false (the default), then C<decode> will throw an error
 when it encounters a self-referential/cyclic data structure.
+FUTURE DIRECTION: the motivation behind this option is to avoid I<real>
+cycles - future versions of this module might chose to decode cyclic data
+structures using weak references when this option is off, instead of
+throwing an error.
 This option does not affect C<encode> in any way - shared values and
-references will always be decoded properly if present.
+references will always be encoded properly if present.
 =item $cbor = $cbor->pack_strings ([$enable])
 =item $enabled = $cbor->get_pack_strings
 and you need to know where the first CBOR string ends amd the next one
 starts.
    CBOR::XS->new->decode_prefix ("......")
    => ("...", 3)
+=back
+=head2 INCREMENTAL PARSING
+In some cases, there is the need for incremental parsing of JSON
+texts. While this module always has to keep both CBOR text and resulting
+Perl data structure in memory at one time, it does allow you to parse a
+CBOR stream incrementally, using a similar to using "decode_prefix" to see
+if a full CBOR object is available, but is much more efficient.
+It basically works by parsing as much of a CBOR string as possible - if
+the CBOR data is not complete yet, the pasrer will remember where it was,
+to be able to restart when more data has been accumulated. Once enough
+data is available to either decode a complete CBOR value or raise an
+error, a real decode will be attempted.
+A typical use case would be a network protocol that consists of sending
+and receiving CBOR-encoded messages. The solution that works with CBOR and
+about anything else is by prepending a length to every CBOR value, so the
+receiver knows how many octets to read. More compact (and slightly slower)
+would be to just send CBOR values back-to-back, as C<CBOR::XS> knows where
+a CBOR value ends, and doesn't need an explicit length.
+The following methods help with this:
+=over 4
+=item @decoded = $cbor->incr_parse ($buffer)
+This method attempts to decode exactly one CBOR value from the beginning
+of the given C<$buffer>. The value is removed from the C<$buffer> on
+success. When C<$buffer> doesn't contain a complete value yet, it returns
+nothing. Finally, when the C<$buffer> doesn't start with something
+that could ever be a valid CBOR value, it raises an exception, just as
+C<decode> would. In the latter case the decoder state is undefined and
+must be reset before being able to parse further.
+This method modifies the C<$buffer> in place. When no CBOR value can be
+decoded, the decoder stores the current string offset. On the next call,
+continues decoding at the place where it stopped before. For this to make
+sense, the C<$buffer> must begin with the same octets as on previous
+unsuccessful calls.
+You can call this method in scalar context, in which case it either
+returns a decoded value or C<undef>. This makes it impossible to
+distinguish between CBOR null values (which decode to C<undef>) and an
+unsuccessful decode, which is often acceptable.
+=item @decoded = $cbor->incr_parse_multiple ($buffer)
+Same as C<incr_parse>, but attempts to decode as many CBOR values as
+possible in one go, instead of at most one. Calls to C<incr_parse> and
+C<incr_parse_multiple> can be interleaved.
+=item $cbor->incr_reset
+Resets the incremental decoder. This throws away any saved state, so that
+subsequent calls to C<incr_parse> or C<incr_parse_multiple> start to parse
+a new CBOR value from the beginning of the C<$buffer> again.
+This method can be caled at any time, but it I<must> be called if you want
+to change your C<$buffer> or there was a decoding error and you want to
+reuse the C<$cbor> object for future incremental parsings.
 =back
 =head1 MAPPING
 These tags are automatically created (and decoded) for serialisable
 objects using the C<FREEZE/THAW> methods (the L<Types::Serialier> object
 serialisation protocol). See L<OBJECT SERIALISATION> for details.
-=item 28, 29 (shareable, sharedref, L <http://cbor.schmorp.de/value-sharing>)
+=item 28, 29 (shareable, sharedref, L<http://cbor.schmorp.de/value-sharing>)
 These tags are automatically decoded when encountered (and they do not
 result in a cyclic data structure, see C<allow_cycles>), resulting in
 shared values in the decoded object. They are only encoded, however, when
 C<allow_sharing> is enabled.
 will be shared, others will not. While non-reference shared values can be
 generated in Perl with some effort, they were considered too unimportant
 to be supported in the encoder. The decoder, however, will decode these
 values as shared values.
-=item 256, 25 (stringref-namespace, stringref, L <http://cbor.schmorp.de/stringref>)
+=item 256, 25 (stringref-namespace, stringref, L<http://cbor.schmorp.de/stringref>)
 These tags are automatically decoded when encountered. They are only
 encoded, however, when C<pack_strings> is enabled.
 =item 22098 (indirection, L<http://cbor.schmorp.de/indirection>)
 =head1 LIMITATIONS ON PERLS WITHOUT 64-BIT INTEGER SUPPORT
 On perls that were built without 64 bit integer support (these are rare
-nowadays, even on 32 bit architectures), support for any kind of 64 bit
+nowadays, even on 32 bit architectures, as all major Perl distributions
+are built with 64 bit integer support), support for any kind of 64 bit
 integer in CBOR is very limited - most likely, these 64 bit values will
 be truncated, corrupted, or otherwise not decoded correctly. This also
 includes string, array and map sizes that are stored as 64 bit integers.
    my ($m, $e) = $_[0]->parts;
    tag 4, [$e->numify, $m]
 }
 sub Time::Piece::TO_CBOR {
-   tag 1, $_[0]->epoch
+   tag 1, 0 + $_[0]->epoch
 }
 XSLoader::load "CBOR::XS", $VERSION;
 =head1 SEE ALSO

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Revision 1.46 by root, Mon Feb 8 04:11:11 2016 UTC