Hi All,
Currently I am using the boost serialization library to serialize and the following structure:

typedef list<int> testList;
typedef testList::iterator lIter;
typedef map<int, testList> testMap;
typedef testMap::iterator tIter;
testMap _tMap;
   template<class Archive>
   void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version)
   {
     ar & _tMap;
   }

int main()
{

test_map tm;
ofstream ofs("map_details.txt");

tm.fillMap();
//tm.display();

boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs);
oa << (const test_map)tm;
ofs.close();

test_map newTm;
ifstream ifs("map_details.txt", std::ios::binary);
boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs);
ia >> newTm;
ifs.close();

newTm.display();
}

In the above code, I am saving the map to a binary file and retrieving it from the file. Instead of that I would want to serialize the data into a char buffer and restore it from the buffer.

This is useful for message communication, where I would like to send the map as a message from one process to another using socket communications.

Can you any one let me know, how this can be done in boost?

Regards,
Anil