[Boost-users] Serialization and BGL

From: Jean-Noël Rivasseau (elvanor2004_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 02:29:31

Hello,

I was wondering if one could use Boost serialization library with the  
Boost Graph Library. Specifically, if one my class holds a graph (for  
example, an adjacency_list class), is it possible to serialize it?
 From what I've read from the Boost serialization documentation, this  
doesn't seem possible as it eventually requires access to the class  
members; in the case of the BGL, the implementation of the classes is  
probably so complex that I wouldn't go through that route; plus, they  
may very well be private.

I was wondering if there is any way to do serialization via the  
public interface of the BGL (ie, add_edge, etc...) ? If I understood  
the Serialization library correctly, everything works via the  
operator & which acts as >> and <<. If I define a << operator for the  
BGL classes, that implement the export / import operations, needed,  
would it be possible to use the BGL with serialization?

Any help from knowledgeable people would be appreciated (I now have a  
quite good knowledge of the BGL but I am new to the serialization  
library).

Jean-Noël