Re: [boost] [serialization] ADL problem

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-24 20:48:47

David Abrahams wrote:
> Use of ADL should be limited to places you intend the library's
> behavior to be customized ("customization points") in part to avoid
> the problem cited below: picking up names used in the library but
> never intended to interact with it.  Volodya's question is whether
> load was really intended to be a customization point.
>

The main customization point is to specialize the template

template<class Archive, class T>
void seriailize(Archive &ar, T &t, const unsigned int version)

There is common specialization summarized by
BOOST_SERIALIZATION_SPLIT_FREE(T) which implemetns
void serialize(...
    // if its an output archive
        save(...
    // compile time else
       load(...

So save and load can be customization points as well.  I think this is
pretty well explained in the manual.

Robert Ramey