NAME
    Pixie - The magic data pixie

SYNOPSIS
      use Pixie;

      my $pixie = Pixie->new->connect('dbi:mysql:dbname=test', $user, $pass);

      # Save an object
      my $cookie = $pixie->insert($some_object);

      undef($some_object);

      # Get it back
      my $some_object = $pixie->get($cookie);

      $pixie->bind_name( "Some Name" => $some_object );
      my $result = $pixie->get_object_named( "Some Name" );

DESCRIPTION
    Pixie is yet another object persistence tool. The basic goal of Pixie is
    that it should be possible to throw any object you want at a data pixie
    and the pixie will just tuck it away in its magic sack, giving you a
    cookie in exchange. Then, minutes, hours or days later, you can show the
    pixie your cookie and get the object back.

    No schemas. No complex querying. No refusing to handle blessed arrays.

    How does pixie do this? Well... when we said 'any object' we were being
    slightly disingenuous. As far as Pixie is concerned 'any object' means
    'any object that satisfies any of these criteria':

    *   The toplevel object is a blessed hash.

    *   The toplevel object is a blessed array

    Right now, Pixie can only save blessed hashes and blessed arrays, but it
    should be possible to extend it to support 'bless arbitrary scalars'.
    However, during testing we found that blessed arbitrary scalars were
    often used with XS classes that stored extra data where Storable and
    Data::Dumper could not see it, leading to all sorts of horrors on
    restoration. So we turned that feature off pending a better approach.
    Further more support for blessed regexes and blessed subroutine
    references should be possible in the future with very little effort
    required.

    Pixie can additionally be used to name objects in the store, and fetch
    them later on with that name.

WITH THANKS
    Jean Louis Leroy, author of Tangram, for letting us use ideas and code
    from the Tangram test suite.

AUTHOR
    Pixie sprang from the mind of James Duncan <james@fotango.com>. Piers
    Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk> and Leon Brocard <acme@astray.org> are his
    co conspiritors.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2002 Fotango Ltd

    This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.