Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams and serialization] serialize via iostreams

From: Pooyan McSporran (duckfreezone_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-15 17:25:39

On 16/01/2008, Jonathan Turkanis <turkanis_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that when I do this, the code ends up calling a copy
> > constructor (which doesn't exist) on my SocketDevice class.  However I
> > don't want to implement a copy constructor for this class as it
> > doesn't make sense (as it manages a socket and a buffer for that
> > socket, etc).
>
> Currently, except for standard streams and stream buffers, which are
> given special treatment, Boost.Iostreams fitlers and devices must be
> copy constructible. (See, e.g., the documentation for the template
> parameter T here:
> http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html?path=3.3)

Thanks for the information, that clarifies things for me.