Re: [Boost-users] [Serialisation] One last GUID question - I hope.

From: Hughes, James (jhughes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-04 03:44:18

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> Pavlo Korzhyk
> Sent: 03 May 2007 22:25
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Serialisation] One last GUID 
> question - I hope.
> 
> ....
> > "The macro BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_GUID associates a string 
> literal with a 
> > class. In the above example we've used a string rendering 
> of the class 
> > name. If a object of such an "exported" class is serialized 
> through a 
> > pointer and is otherwise unregistered, the "export" string 
> is included 
> > in the archive. When the archive is later read, the string 
> literal is 
> > used to find the class which should be created by the serialization 
> > library. ****This permits each class to be in a separate 
> header file 
> > along with its string identifier****. There is no need to maintain a
> ....
> > Is the document misleading here, or have I missed something??
> 
>    It says that the class declaration may be placed in a 
> separate header, but that doesn't mean 
> BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_GUID must be placed to that header too :)
>    When you create a separate header for the class, usually 
> you also create a separate .cpp for it. Place 
> BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT there and everything will work fine.
> 
> WBR, Pavlo Korzhyk
> ICQ#155870780

Thanks Pavlo, that's what I have done. Bit of a pain when you have a
header only class though...

James

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