Re: [Boost-users] Re: Is there a binary serialization class ?

From: Georgios Diamantopoulos (georgiosd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-01 08:29:52

Hi Mike,

I think we could all use that class, especially if it comes with boost.

Let us know what happens and thanks :)

George

> 
> Hmm, since this subject is coming up here and has also just popped up
> on comp.lang.c++.moderated, I'll venture an offering.
> 
> A little over a year ago, I wrote a general-purpose binary
> packing/unpacking class (inspired by Perl and Python's pack() and
> unpack()) that has held up pretty well in production for over a year
> now.  I've always wanted to ask my company for permission to release
> it into the public domain (maybe even into Boost?!?), but haven't
> pushed it as I'd not heard anyone looking for anything quite like
> it--until now.
> 
> If anyone's interested, I'll pursue getting permission from my company
> to open it up ASAP.
> 
> To solve the endianness, size, and padding problems, the approach I'd
> take with my class would be to make sure the protocol expected a
> single character indicating the byte order of the data stream first;
> then you'd grab the appropriate unpacker from the factory and start
> unpacking away.  It's up to the protocol writer to know how to unpack
> the bytes in the proper order into the proper structures from there.
> 
> Of course, packing/unpacking isn't quite the same as serialization,
> I'm sure, but maybe serialization isn't exactly the term that applies
> here?
> 
> Mike
> 
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