Use Types::Serialiser::Boolean for true/false

[wisnij]

Could Types::Serialiser::Boolean be used rather than defining Data::MessagePack::Boolean internally? Using and checking for that during conversion would make interoperability with other serialization formats a lot easier. In particular, it would be a big win to be able to convert from JSON text to Perl data and then into MessagePack, and vice versa, without having to account for the boolean types manually.

[gfx]

Looks nice. Patches welcome!

[FGasper]

I’m working on a module to support WAMP, a messaging/RPC protocol. That protocol supports MessagePack, but it’s a bit clumsy to implement because D::MP only uses its own boolean objects.

Can you point me in the appropriate direction for accessing and testing equality of a Perl global from XS? I may try to find time to work on this.

[foobargeez]

Ah, I am stuck with this one as well -- JSON->Perl data->MP -- fails.

Looks like a MR has already been submitted to address this -- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-perl/pull/37.

Is there anything I can help with to have the fix merged into the module?

Thanks in advance!

[foobargeez]

Something in production broke because of this issue, so I had to come up with a workaround. Sharing it here so it helps others who may be looking for one:

• If your input has blessed booleans, store them as \1 or \0. In my case, I am dealing with TOML files, so something like:

      my $parser = TOML::Parser->new(
          inflate_boolean => sub {
              my $boolean = shift;
              return $boolean eq 'true' ? \1 : \0;
          }
      );

• Data::MessagePack stores the data as Data::MessagePack::Boolean blessed objects
• Once you unpack the data, do an unbless (from Data::Structure::Util)

That should do the trick until the Data::MessagePack deals with Types::Serialiser::Boolean blessed objects.

[FGasper]

@foobargeez I’m not sure why my PR is closed, but it expands compatibility to Types::Serialiser while maintaining compatibility with the proprietary flags.

This module appears to be abandoned, though. I tried to contact the maintainer several times and got no response.