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347future, global hooks might get installed that influence C<decode> and are 347future, global hooks might get installed that influence C<decode> and are
348enabled by this setting. 348enabled by this setting.
349 349
350If C<$enable> is false, then the C<allow_blessed> setting will decide what 350If C<$enable> is false, then the C<allow_blessed> setting will decide what
351to do when a blessed object is found. 351to do when a blessed object is found.
352
353=item $json = $json->filter_json_object ([$coderef->($hashref)])
354
355When C<$coderef> is specified, it will be called from C<decode> each
356time it decodes a JSON object. The only argument is a reference to the
357newly-created hash. If the code references returns a single scalar (which
358need not be a reference), this value (i.e. a copy of that scalar to avoid
359aliasing) is inserted into the deserialised data structure. If it returns
360an empty list (NOTE: I<not> C<undef>, which is a valid scalar), the
361original deserialised hash will be inserted. This setting can slow down
362decoding considerably.
363
364When C<$coderef> is omitted or undefined, any existing callback will
365be removed and C<decode> will not change the deserialised hash in any
366way.
367
368Example, convert all JSON objects into the integer 5:
369
370 my $js = JSON::XS->new->filter_json_object (sub { 5 });
371 # returns [5]
372 $js->decode ('[{}]')
373 # throw an exception because allow_nonref is not enabled
374 # so a lone 5 is not allowed.
375 $js->decode ('{"a":1, "b":2}');
376
377=item $json = $json->filter_json_single_key_object ($key [=> $coderef->($value)])
378
379Works remotely similar to C<filter_json_object>, but is only called for
380JSON objects having a single key named C<$key>.
381
382This C<$coderef> is called before the one specified via
383C<filter_json_object>, if any. It gets passed the single value in the JSON
384object. If it returns a single value, it will be inserted into the data
385structure. If it returns nothing (not even C<undef> but the empty list),
386the callback from C<filter_json_object> will be called next, as if no
387single-key callback were specified.
388
389If C<$coderef> is omitted or undefined, the corresponding callback will be
390disabled. There can only ever be one callback for a given key.
391
392As this callback gets called less often then the C<filter_json_object>
393one, decoding speed will not usually suffer as much. Therefore, single-key
394objects make excellent targets to serialise Perl objects into, especially
395as single-key JSON objects are as close to the type-tagged value concept
396as JSON gets (its basically an ID/VALUE tuple). Of course, JSON does not
397support this in any way, so you need to make sure your data never looks
398like a serialised Perl hash.
399
400Typical names for the single object key are C<__class_whatever__>, or
401C<$__dollars_are_rarely_used__$> or C<}ugly_brace_placement>, or even
402things like C<__class_md5sum(classname)__>, to reduce the risk of clashing
403with real hashes.
404
405Example, decode JSON objects of the form C<< { "__widget__" => <id> } >>
406into the corresponding C<< $WIDGET{<id>} >> object:
407
408 # return whatever is in $WIDGET{5}:
409 JSON::XS
410 ->new
411 ->filter_json_single_key_object (__widget__ => sub {
412 $WIDGET{ $_[0] }
413 })
414 ->decode ('{"__widget__": 5')
415
416 # this can be used with a TO_JSON method in some "widget" class
417 # for serialisation to json:
418 sub WidgetBase::TO_JSON {
419 my ($self) = @_;
420
421 unless ($self->{id}) {
422 $self->{id} = ..get..some..id..;
423 $WIDGET{$self->{id}} = $self;
424 }
425
426 { __widget__ => $self->{id} }
427 }
352 428
353=item $json = $json->shrink ([$enable]) 429=item $json = $json->shrink ([$enable])
354 430
355Perl usually over-allocates memory a bit when allocating space for 431Perl usually over-allocates memory a bit when allocating space for
356strings. This flag optionally resizes strings generated by either 432strings. This flag optionally resizes strings generated by either
802still relatively early in its development. If you keep reporting bugs they 878still relatively early in its development. If you keep reporting bugs they
803will be fixed swiftly, though. 879will be fixed swiftly, though.
804 880
805=cut 881=cut
806 882
807our $true = do { bless \(my $dummy = 1), "JSON::XS::Boolean" }; 883our $true = do { bless \(my $dummy = "1"), "JSON::XS::Boolean" };
808our $false = do { bless \(my $dummy = 0), "JSON::XS::Boolean" }; 884our $false = do { bless \(my $dummy = "0"), "JSON::XS::Boolean" };
809 885
810sub true() { $true } 886sub true() { $true }
811sub false() { $false } 887sub false() { $false }
812 888
813sub is_bool($) { 889sub is_bool($) {

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