Re: Serialization (Persistence) library draft submission

From: dylan_nicholson (dylan_nicholson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-27 20:57:37

--- In boost_at_y..., "rameysb" <ramey_at_r...> wrote:
> Fellow programmers
> 
> I have just uploaded my proposal for a boost library to address 
> saving and restoring of C++ objects.  I refer to this as 
> serialization.
> 
> After much effort I managed to get this working to fullfill all the 
> requirements below:
> 
> Code portability - depend only on ANSI C++ facilities. 
> 
> Code economy - exploit features of C++ such as RTTI, templates, and 
> multiple inheritence, etc where appropriate to make code shorter 
and 
> simpler to use.
>  
But the two aren't compatible - RTTI typenames are not portable, 
AFAIK.  There needs to be a mechanism to supply your own unique 
serialisation ids if you don't want to (or can't) use RTTI names.

Dylan