Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Serialization] St8bad_castduringserialization

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-07 15:42:40

James Dennett wrote:

There isn't.  I'm not sure there should be.  Its only needed for xml 
archives
but adding it would require that it be put in all the other archives as
a no-op.  Also "flush" suggests that one could continue using the
archive after it was "flushed" like a stream.  This would not be case
as the function of "flush" would be to finish off the xml data structure.

Ideally what I would like to do is throw an exception in the
archive destructor if the stream is still open - but that's not
a good idea.

> Is there an explicit way to flush the archive before
> reaching its destructor?  Presumably writing output
> to a stream can cause an exception to be thrown, and
> we would want to be able to handle such errors rather
> than hitting terminate().
>
> -- James