Re: [boost] Questions on Serialization

From: Martin Slater (mslater_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-24 05:13:28

> library contains code to serialize "shared_ptr" types.  Should the
> Serialization library contain similar code for every potential Boost type,
> so should each type include the code?
> 
> If the latter is the answer, then does:
> 
>     class my_type {
>         friend class ::boost::serialization::access;
>         //...
>     };

I just ran into this again when I needed to serialize a 
boost::dynamic_bitset and with porting our codebase over to use 1.33 
bringing across the modification I made to boost::filesystem::path for 
serialization. If there is a chance that these will get incorporated 
into cvs I will go to the effort of writing and configuring test cases 
for them and submit them (I did submit sode and tests a long time ago 
for filesystem::path but unfortuantly they never made it in so I'm 
reluctant to do more unless there is willing by the library authors to 
have them). It seems there should be a concerted effort to get all of 
boost being able to serialise out of the box as it leaves the library as 
a whole feeling somewhat disjointed. I may have some free time in the 
near future so I could be persuaded to go through implementing / 
incorpating existing patches for serialisation for other boost libraries.

cheers

Martin

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