DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base - base class for Gofer serialization

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
    $serializer = $serializer_class->new();
    $string = $serializer->serialize( $data );
    ($string, $deserializer_class) = $serializer->serialize( $data );
    $data = $serializer->deserialize( $string );
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

DBI::Gofer::Serializer::* classes implement a very minimal subset of the Data::Serializer API.

Gofer serializers are expected to be very fast and are not required to deal with anything other than non-blessed references to arrays and hashes, and plain scalars.

2026-10-18 perl v5.44.0

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Document: DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base(3pm) from perl-dbi 1.656-r0 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi