[Boost-users] Re: [serialization] editor archive

From: Jeffrey Holle (jeff.holle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-23 19:57:51

The archive is, by design, insensitive of the application type.
What you need to decide is whether one of the archive types is suitable for your 
application though.  You have binary, text, and xml archive choices without 
creating a new archive type.
I can imagine the necessity to create a new archive type if, for instance:
   o you wanted to save all versions of a document.
   o you needed to conform to some specific file format.
   o you needed to stick the document into a database

The only small caviot that I've discovered with boost.serialization is its 
handling of pointers to primative data types.  It is sometimes necessary to 
write a wrapper class around such data to make it non-primative. std::string is 
such a type.

Martin Slater wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
>> I can't see why this would require a new archive type
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> Now that would be perfect if I did not need a new archive type, I'm 
> having trouble envisioning how it would work without one though. Any 
> chance you could explain a bit more?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Martin