Re: Jason is getting MARRIED!

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-08 19:38:20

Robert Ramey wrote:

> > What is the benefit of a "JSON archive" that is not achieved with other 
> > archive types?
>
> For my purposes - nothing.  The text version is just fine.

There is nothing inherently preventing the serialization library from 
serving the additional use case that you consider off-limits. Your only 
concern is serializing a C++ structure to a mostly unspecified format and 
then reading it back, but there's also a scenario where you have an existing 
and specified format to which you tailor your C++ structures so that 
serializing them produces the specified format, and deserializing them reads 
it.

This is admittedly somewhat complicated by the - largely opaque - metadata 
the library inserts, but it's doable.