Re: Any interest for a polymorphic serialization library?

From: Eric Newhuis (enewhuis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-05 13:04:06

Instead of sending a confusing header, in order to give you a clearer idea
of how one would use this library, here is an example use case for the
current manifestation.  It is one of my unit tests.

This variant has a simple base class and doesn't offer any help with objects
that work well with smart pointers or reference-counted bases.  I will
generalize the framework so these traits may be expressed through templates
or generators.

I also studied the persistence library before writing my own library and
sending the first email.  I enjoyed what I saw there.  And it looked like it
solved a slightly different problem than what I wanted to solve.  I was not
terribly fond of the "look and feel" of the persistence library, although I
was impressed by the techniques employed to realize the library.  In the
context within which I plan on using my serialization library, however, my
requirements are simple and deserve a simple solution.