Re^2: Dealing with blessed scalars when using YAML::XS::Load

[Anonymous Monk]

tye, Thank you for the solution. I'm sorry I did not include the output. It's a scalar ref. Output:

java.util.UUID=SCALAR(0x100800e60)
java.util.UUID

I looked at unbless but we are changing YAML handling in a framework used by other people, so the solution needs to result in scalars or objects that can be treated like strings. I appreciate the suggestion though. Can you explain why you put the _alias step in? What is the advantage? I found this equally effective:

BEGIN {
    {
        package YAML::Sucks::JavaUtilUUID;
    }
    $main::{'java.util.UUID::'} = $YAML::Sucks::{'JavaUtilUUID::'};
}

Again, thanks.

[tye]

Aliasing a package like that is not expected. There may be things that break in the face of it. So I reduced the number of things that have to deal with that aliased package to a single thing, @ISA. Then one doesn't have to worry about ambiguity in the code context or name of a method or ref-counting issues or some other problem that might result from the hackish aliasing.