Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] skipping data

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-10 02:03:32

Joel de Guzman wrote:

> You didn't answer my question. What I am asking is what
> do I write in the commented out portion of the code
> using only Boost.Serialization interface. I do not want
> to do any undocumented back-door tricks. I want a way to
> skip reading some data regardless of what the archive type
> is.

I don't see a way to do this except in some special cases
like xml.  Even then it would only work for some cases
like tracked pointer data, etc.

The basic problem is that Y serializes itself and only
Y "knows" its size.  So really only Y has the information
to know how much to skip - but the problem presupposes
that we're not going to have a Y.  So I don't think
there is anyway to do this.

Robert Ramey