Re: [boost] [serialization][trunk]please bring us archive helpers back

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-08 11:31:02

"JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z" wrote:

> So, I think providing archive types specialized for serializing
> specific types basically breaks down the architectural design
> of B.S, which is based on the separation of type-agnostic
> archives and archive-agnostic serialization code: this is too
> good to depart from.

I totally understand and am in total agreement.  I made an
exception to this general rule for shared_ptr which I felt
I had to do at the time.

But I think you missed the main point of my last message.

The 1.33 system has an api for attaching helpers to to
an archive class.  This was only used (as far as I knew)
and only needed to address the special problems associated
with the serialization of shared_ptr.  This introduced
code into the library for handling one special case - which
we both agree is a bad idea.  Now you're telling me
that you need it for other types - well that was news to me.

So I'm thinking that a better solution might be to create
a class "helper manager" which contains the functionality
of the 1.33 and mixing in THIS class at the bottom
of the hierarchy.  So things would give you back the
functionality of 1.33 while still removing inappropriate
API decoration of the base classes.

Robert Ramey

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> Joaquín M López Muñoz
> Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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