Module: ODBA::Marshal

Defined in:
lib/odba/marshal.rb

Overview

Marshal is a simple extension of ::Marshal. To be able to store our data using the DBI-Interface, we need to escape invalid characters from the standard binary dump.

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.dump(obj) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/odba/marshal.rb', line 9

def Marshal.dump(obj)
  binary = ::Marshal.dump(obj)
  binary.unpack('H*').first
end

.load(hexdump) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/odba/marshal.rb', line 13

def Marshal.load(hexdump)
  binary = [hexdump].pack('H*')
  ::Marshal.load(binary)
  rescue => error
    $stderr.puts "#{error}: hexdump is #{hexdump.inspect} #{error.backtrace.join("\n")}"
    Date.new
end