$type = Protocol::CassandraCQL::Type->from_frame( $frame )

Returns a new type object initialised by parsing the type information in the given message frame.

$name = $type->name

Returns a string representation of the type name.

$bytes = $type->encode( $v )

Encodes the given perl data into a bytestring.

$v = $type->decode( $bytes )

Decodes the given bytestring into perl data.

$message = $type->validate( $v )

Validates whether the given perl data is valid for this type. If so, returns false. Otherwise, returns an error message explaining why.

$etype = $type->element_type

Returns the type of the elements in the list or set, for "LIST" and "SET" types.

$ktype = $type->key_type

$vtype = $type->value_type

Returns the type of the keys and values in the map, for "MAP" types.

ASCII

To or from a string scalar, which must contain only US-ASCII codepoints (i.e. "ord" <= 127).

BIGINT, BOOLEAN, COUNTER, DECIMAL, FLOAT, INT

To or from a numeric scalar.

BLOB

To or from an opaque string scalar of bytes.

DECIMAL

To or from an instance of Math::BigFloat, or from a regular numeric scalar.

TIMESTAMP

To or from a numeric scalar, representing a UNIX epoch timestamp as a float to the nearest milisecond.

UUID, TIMEUUID

To or from a string containing hex digits and hyphens, in the form "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx".

VARCHAR

To or from a string scalar containing Unicode characters.

VARINT

To or from an instance of Math::BigInt, or from a regular numeric scalar.

LIST, SET

To or from an "ARRAY" reference containing elements.

MAP

To or from a "HASH" reference, where the keys used must be of some string type.