[boost] Serializing a variant

From: Richard Peters (r.a.peters_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-22 08:13:32

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to serialize a variant. I see two possibly difficult
things that I don't know how to accomplish: 1) In order to be able to
retrieve a variant from an archive, the type of the value held by the
variant must be stored. 2) When retrieving the data from an archive, once
the type is read, a value of that type must be extracted from the archive
and assigned to the variant. Has anybody tried this before, is this as
difficult as it looks? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

best regards,

Richard Peters