Re: [Boost-users] Serialization and BGL

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 11:26:32

On Jun 17, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:

> The serialization library is designed to make the possible - and 
> hopefully
> easy - without modification of the BGL library.  This depends on the 
> BGL
> library exposing enough information in order to save and load back the 
> state
> of the objects it uses.  I can't know that it does this.  Note that
> serialization is implemented totally non-intrusively for all std
> collections, variant and now shared_ptr.  So what you want to do 
> should be
> possible.

The BGL graph types do expose enough information for serialization. One 
only needs access to the vertices, edges, and properties of the graph 
to serialize it. We would love to make the BGL serializable (it's been 
on by TODO list for ages), but it has never percolated to the top of 
the stack. Of course, we'd be happy to review and integrate any patches 
to make the BGL graph types serializable.

        Doug