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+package DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base;
+
+#   $Id: Base.pm 9949 2007-09-18 09:38:15Z timbo $
+#
+#   Copyright (c) 2007, Tim Bunce, Ireland
+#
+#   You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
+#   License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base - base class for Gofer serialization
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+    $serializer = $serializer_class->new();
+
+    $string = $serializer->serialize( $data );
+    ($string, $deserializer_class) = $serializer->serialize( $data );
+
+    $data = $serializer->deserialize( $string );
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+DBI::Gofer::Serializer::* classes implement a very minimal subset of the L<Data::Serializer> API.
+
+Gofer serializers are expected to be very fast and are not required to deal
+with anything other than non-blessed references to arrays and hashes, and plain scalars.
+
+=cut
+
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Carp qw(croak);
+
+our $VERSION = sprintf("0.%06d", q$Revision: 9949 $ =~ /(\d+)/o);
+
+
+sub new {
+    my $class = shift;
+    my $deserializer_class = $class->deserializer_class;
+    return bless { deserializer_class => $deserializer_class } => $class;
+}
+
+sub deserializer_class {
+    my $self = shift;
+    my $class = ref($self) || $self;
+    $class =~ s/^DBI::Gofer::Serializer:://;
+    return $class;
+}
+
+sub serialize {
+    my $self = shift;
+    croak ref($self)." has not implemented the serialize method";
+}
+
+sub deserialize {
+    my $self = shift;
+    croak ref($self)." has not implemented the deserialize method";
+}
+
+1;