TOON

A small starter CPAN-style distribution for a TOON module with a familiar interface inspired by JSON.

Status

This is an intentionally basic implementation. It is suitable as a starting point for further development, but it is not yet a complete or authoritative implementation of any external TOON specification.

Supported syntax

• null
• true / false
• numbers
• quoted strings with JSON-style escapes
• arrays: [1, 2, 3]
• objects: {name: "Dave", count: 3}
• quoted object keys when needed

Example

use TOON qw(encode_toon decode_toon);

my $text = encode_toon({
  name   => 'Dave',
  active => 1,
  tags   => ['perl', 'toon'],
}, canonical => 1);

my $data = decode_toon($text);

OO interface

use TOON;

my $toon = TOON->new->pretty->canonical;
my $text = $toon->encode({ answer => 42 });
my $data = $toon->decode($text);