Another “basic” question for the
list again, apologies in advance.
I have a class with a data member
which is an enumeration, e.g.:
typedef enum
param_choice
{
PARAM_CHOICE_UINT8,
PARAM_CHOICE_UINT16,
PARAM_CHOICE_UINT32,
PARAM_CHOICE_INT8,
PARAM_CHOICE_BOOL
}
param_choice_e;
I can quite happily user the Boost
Serialization library to save and restore a class with a data member of this
type:
class
Stuff
{
friend std::ostream&
operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Stuff&
stuff
friend class
boost::serialization::access;
template<class
Archive>
void serialize(Archive& ar,
const unsigned int file_version)
{
ar &
BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(choice);
}
param_choice
choice;
public:
Stuff ()
{}
Stuff (param_choice
theChoice);
};
This is using XML as the
file-format. The data member appears in the file as an
integer.
However, what I would LIKE to do
is output the value of “choice” as a string (e.g. instead of outputing
<choice>2</choice>, the file contains
<choice>UINT32</choice>). And do a conversion when I read it all
back in again, of course.
Can someone please provide some
pointers to where I can find out how to do this? Or an
example?
Is the solution going to end up
along the lines of:
- Split the
serialize into separate load and save routines
- In the save,
convert the data member into a string and output this to the
archive
- In the load, input
from the archive into a string and then store this into the data
member
Best regards in
anticipation,
Graham.