Re: [Boost-users] Serialization newbie needs help

From: Hughes, James (jhughes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-21 09:38:27

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Peter Dimov
> Sent: 21 August 2007 14:28
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Serialization newbie needs help
> 
> Jeff Flinn wrote:
> > Dominick Layfield wrote:
> 
> >> My problem is that I just don't see when pointer 
> serialization would 
> >> be a big win.  But I can't tell if I just have a limited 
> perspective.  
> >> That's why I was genuinely hoping that you could provide a 
> concrete 
> >> example.
> >
> > See http://www.adi.com/products_sim_ad_de.htm. This product 
> maintains 
> > numerous connections between model ports. Among numerous other 
> > under-the-hood pointers, there are containers of 
> connections which are 
> > pairs of boost::shared_ptr<Port>'s. The state of the entire 
> system is 
> > saved/loaded to/from file using boost::serialization. This would be 
> > undoable without the ability to serialize pointers, and such a 
> > facility in my mind could not be called a serialization library.
> 
> You are the second person to cite an example of serializing 
> shared_ptr. The question is about raw pointers. 

Sorry, been using smart pointers for too long, and forgotten there are
those other ones....but surely the same principles apply?

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