Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Re-serialization ??

From: Jerry (jerry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-23 09:53:58

> Is there a way to do a "re-serialization" of an object structure? Let's 
> say I have a couple of objects, and I
> serialize them to "State A", then change a few things. Ideally, I'd like 
> to just deserialize "State A" so that
> I get the objects back to that state, without boost::serialization 
> creating new objects for me.

absolutely. however i think this is only appropriate if you have very fine 
grained objects. my most recent encounter with serialization and undo/redo 
was in a diagram editor. it was important to track many small changes to 
object state (i.e. location) but simply serializing the object each time 
would have been overkill. much better to serialize a rectangle on its own. 
(apologies if this is a glimpse of the crashingly obvious!).

jerry