Re:[boost] Re: [serialization] problems with writing binary

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-12 11:21:31

Vladimir Prus wrote

>Robert Ramey wrote:

>> The intention was that it be used for:
>> 
>> struct A
>>   {
>>             int* content;
>>             int size;
>> 
>>             template<class A>
>>             void serialize(A& a, unsigned version)
>>             {
>>                 a & size;
>> a & make_binary_object(content, size*sizeof(int));
>>             }
>>   };

>At least, the docs do not document this intention. I also think that this
>implementation will crash at runtime, since 'serialize' is not allocating
>memory for 'content'. Looking at binary_object.hpp, I see the following:

This is a question of motivation, intent and utility.

a) motivation - I needed a method for save/loading raw bnary data.
the save_binary/load_binary fill this need but I found I had two
annoying features. 
1) The above would have to use split
2) There was no way to specify an nvp wrapper.

I will make this clear in the documents

Robert Ramey