RE: [boost] Serialization Review

From: Roman Yakovenko (romany_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-03 00:29:31

Hi it was my second question that I ask only my self. I have to
serialize 
objects across net and also to save them to files. Also it possible to
write 
operator<< that will serialize from\to recordset. Also one of the
possible uses of your library is copy function. The common between those
things is, as you wrote, flatten/unflatten functionality. So my question
is would it be possible to specialize your class over my own stream-like
object?

Roman

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Ramey [mailto:ramey_at_[hidden]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 6:11 AM
To: 'boost_at_[hidden]'
Subject: RE: [boost] Serialization Review

>Roman Yakovenko wrote

>Good morning. This is very good library. I wrote and support library
>with 60 objects that must be serialized. I have one question: 
>Why text_[i,o]archive may use any stream like object, but b[i,o]archive

>use only std::[i,o]stream. Is there is some reason? Also I didn't find
>the
>answer to my question in documentation.

>Roman

text_[i,o]archive is a template that uses as stream type as an argument.
It is used to generate ioarchive and oarchive (char archives) as well
as woarchive and wiarchive (wchar_t archives).  These are concrete
classes that use stream like objects.

Actually your question touches on a more interesting point that has
here to for gone uncommented upon.

The base classes basic_oarchive, and basic_iarchive make not assumptions
that the input/output are stream like objects.  Hence, the serialization
library could well be useful for such things as passing complex data
sets
accross the net directly.  Their basic function is to flatten/unflatten
a complex object structure so that it can be represented as a series
of bytes that can be stored/transmitted/ what ever across time and/or
space.

Thank you for testing/using this library as well as for your
endorsement. Note that a newer version
will be posted before the final review which will add some features and
correct some errors. (note:
I presume you meen 60 classes rather than 60 objects)

Robert Ramey

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