Re: [boost] [serialization] exception-safety of container-serialization

From: Thorsten Ottosen (tottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-17 19:17:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> Joaquín Mª López Muñoz <joaquin_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>2. It might be of interest to keep a partially recovered object.
>>For instance, think of the situation in which a container is being
>>marshalled thru a socket and you lose internet conectivity.
> 
> 
> That brings up an interesting point: you have to make sure, when
> writing deserialization for a class, that partial deserialization
> won't leave its instances with broken invariants.

Well, can't we think if deserialization as just another way of 
constructing an object?

So if deserialization fails, it's like when construction fails and you 
might throw or abort. No?

-Thorsten