Re: [boost] JSON Archives for Boost.serialization

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-22 13:10:35

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> "Kasun Indrasiri" <kasun147_at_[hidden]> writes: >

> Thus, it is not clear what advantage a JSON-format archive would offer.
> The most obvious use for JSON is for communicating with a program
> written in JavaScript, but then it would be necessary to follow a
> particular format so that the JavaScript program could do something
> useful with the data, and therefore Boost Serialization is not the right
> tool for the job.
> 

Programs written in C++ often need to inter communicate with programs written 
in other languages.  Or they need to store data structures in a form that can 
be processed by programs written in another language. JSON is now a common 
format for doing this and has parsers any many languages.  Last but not least, 
even if the program is all C++ some folks would prefer a recognizable and 
widely used format -- the serialization 'proprietary formats' don't qualify on 
that score.

Jeff