Re: [Boost-users] Library Interface Design

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-13 10:12:30

"Oliver Mutz" <omutz_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Loïc Joly wrote:
>> Nat Goodspeed a écrit :
>>> 
>>> I haven't yet worked with a serialization framework smart enough to
>>> consider constructor arguments. (I haven't yet worked with the Boost
>>> Serialization library, either; forgive me if this is already a solved
>>> problem.)
>> 
>> Boost::serialization requires a constructor with no arguments.
>
> That's not right I'm afraid. 

And thank goodness.

> See the "Non-Default Constructors" part of the serialization library
> documentation for details.  The problem still might be that you
> don't have the right data available while deserializing your object.

Then you can't usefully construct it.  What's the point in making a
broken instance?

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Dave Abrahams
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