UL4ON

UL4ON is a lightweight text-based cross-platform object serialization format.

Oracle

This Oracle package makes it possible to output UL4ON encoded data that can then be parsed by any of the UL4ON implementations in Python, Java and Javascript.

Example

Define the following Oracle function:

create or replace function ul4on_test
return clob
as
        c_out clob;
begin
        ul4on_pkg.begindict(c_out);
                ul4on_pkg.keystr(c_out, 'firstname', 'John');
                ul4on_pkg.keystr(c_out, 'lastname', 'Doe');
                ul4on_pkg.keydate(c_out, 'birthday', to_date('2000-02-29', 'YYYY-MM-DD'));
                ul4on_pkg.key(c_out, 'emails');
                ul4on_pkg.beginlist(c_out);
                        ul4on_pkg.str(c_out, 'john@example.org');
                        ul4on_pkg.str(c_out, 'jdoe@example.net');
                ul4on_pkg.endlist(c_out);
        ul4on_pkg.enddict(c_out);
        return c_out;
end;

Then you can call this function and parse the result with the following Python code:

import cx_Oracle

from ll import ul4on

db = cx_Oracle.connect(...)
c = db.cursor()
c.execute("select ul4on_test from dual")
dump = c.fetchone()[0].read()
data = ul4on.loads(dump)
print(data)

This will print the parsed data:

{
        'firstname': 'John',
        'lastname': 'Doe',
        'birthday': datetime.date(2000, 2, 29),
        'emails': ['john@example.org', 'jdoe@example.net']
}

Documentation

The Python documentation contains more info about UL4ON.

Authors

• Walter Dörwald