This is a library for parsing php-serialized data to scala object.

For SBT, add the following to your build file.

libraryDependencies += "com.sandinh" %% "php-unserializer" % "1.0.3"

(This is my real usage)

I have a RESTful service implemented in scala (use Play Framework) that need integrate to an existing website (use XenForo) to check if user is logged in & send a validated captcha when call my service.

Captcha correct answers is stored (by XenForo) in a BLOB column in Mysql. The code below will validate if answer is correct:

val blob: Array[Byte] = getDataFromDB()

val result = PhpUnserializer.parse(blob)

assert(result.isInstanceOf[Map[_, _]], "parsed value must be Map")

val expectedAnswers = result.asInstanceOf[Map[String, _]]

expectedAnswers should contain value "cường ẩ ẵ ự:;\""

def validate(answer: String) = expectedAnswers.exists{
  case (_, s: String) => answer.equalsIgnoreCase(s)
  case _ => false
}

assert(validate("cƯỜnG Ẩ Ẵ Ự:;\""))

@see full test code in PhpUnserializerSpec.scala

We use Semantic Versioning, so changing in micro version is binary compatible.

• parse large int to Long instead of Double
• add more test

cross compile to scala 2.11 & 2.10

Improved exception handling.

Add PhpUnserializer#parse(Array[Byte])

First stable release

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Copyright 2013 Sân Đình (http://sandinh.com)