Re: [Boost-users] Need help in serialization

From: Anil Krishna (akrishna876_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-07 12:26:57

Thanks a lot Robert.

Really appreciate your help.

Regards,
Anil

On 8/4/06, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  use a stringstream instead of a file stream.
>
> #include <sstream> // or maybe #include <stringstream> - I forget.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
>
> "Anil Krishna" <akrishna876_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:d27926bf0608041513i6049b7cas247dd30d70d40601_at_mail.gmail.com...
>
> Hi All,
> Currently I am using the boost serialization library to serialize and the
> following structure:
>
> typedef list<int> testList;
> typedef testList::iterator lIter;
> typedef map<int, testList> testMap;
> typedef testMap::iterator tIter;
> testMap _tMap;
>    template<class Archive>
>    void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version)
>    {
>      ar & _tMap;
>    }
>
> int main()
> {
>
>   test_map tm;
>   ofstream ofs("map_details.txt");
>
>   tm.fillMap();
>   //tm.display();
>
>   boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs);
>   oa << (const test_map)tm;
>   ofs.close();
>
>   test_map newTm;
>   ifstream ifs("map_details.txt", std::ios::binary);
>   boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs);
>   ia >> newTm;
>   ifs.close();
>
>   newTm.display();
> }
>
>
> In the above code, I am saving the map to a binary file and retrieving it
> from the file. Instead of that I would want to serialize the data into a
> char buffer and restore it from the buffer.
>
> This is useful for message communication, where I would like to send the
> map as a message from one process to another using socket communications.
>
> Can you any one let me know, how this can be done in boost?
>
>
> Regards,
> Anil
>
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