Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Removing objects from an archive

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-13 11:13:53

This suggests to me that your view of what the serialization library is is 
way of of sync of what it is intended to be and what its intended to be used 
for.

The serialization library saves and restores the state of data in your 
application.

An archive is a data stream where the data is stored.

The archive is not manipulated explicitly by the program.  There is no place 
in the library where one could introduce the concept and corresponding code 
to "remove data from the archive".  The only way to do this is to remove the 
data from the C++ data structures that the archive would correspond to and 
create another archive.

I don't know if that helps, but I think its the best I can do.

Robert Ramey

Przemyslaw Wojnowski wrote:
> It helps a lot. But now I have another question. Could archive
> interface be changed/extended to support removing from an archive, so
> interface realization will be able to save/load/remove data
> selectively? If not, why?
>
> Przemek