[boost] Serialisation on UDP

From: JOLY Loic (loic.joly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-07 11:49:23

Dear boosters,

I plan to use serialisation, but not to save data in a file, but to send 
it over the network. I wonder wether the serialisation library draft 
would be relevent to my case.

Among the requirements described in the overview, there are some for 
which I do not care, and other not written that I am not sure are 
totally adressed by the library.

I do not care (and do not want to pay) for 3 and 5 (versionning and 
handling of shared data).

What I need is self-contained data. For instance, when I send an object 
on the network, I do not want any globally shared table of object 
references, or class definition, to be generated.

I believe that the object_serializable implementation level could help 
me in that respect, but would like to specify it not at the class level, 
but at the archive level. That way, I am sure all classes sent to my 
archive behave correctly. Is this possible ?

Do you think I could use serialisation to achieve my goals ? Do you 
think there is another point I forgot ?

Regards,

-- 
Loïc