Re: [Boost-users] [serialization-1.32.0] de-serializing newer versions that the application can deal with

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-15 09:11:56

Bill Lear wrote:
> 
> I think what you mean is: does boost serialization guard against
> forward incompatibility?  It does not: that's your job.  For any version
> of your code, if you want to guard against forward incompatibility,
> you simply need to do this:
> 

Yes.

> BOOST_CLASS_VERSION(test, TEST_CURRENT_VERSION);
> 
> Of course, you could make an argument that boost should do this
> automatically.:-)
> 

I'm quite happy to do this if serialization doesn't.  My question is 
that TEST_CURRENT_VERSION will then be declared in a header file as 
#define.  I'd rather avoid that.  So if I have

BOOST_CLASS_VERSION(test, 0x01);

How do I access the version of test?

Cheers

Russell