Re: [Boost-users] in-memory stream, binary archive,serialization

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-12 17:53:48

On 12 May 2008, at 17:14, Victor Whiskey Yankee wrote:

> Matthias Troyer wrote:
>>
>> On 12 May 2008, at 01:20, Victor Whiskey Yankee wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to serialize into and from a memory buffer using
>>> boost::archive::binary_oarchive and binary_iarchive.
>>>
>>> Using std::stringstream does not work (it does work with  
>>> text_oarchive
>>> and text_iarchive in memory and using files).
>>>
>>> I found a mention in the archives about similar need here:
>>>    http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/10/31580.php
>>>
>>> But I cannot figure it out.
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried using the Boost IO Stream library to create a stream
>> that buffers in memory and use that with a binary archive?
>>
> The posting I mentioned above suggests the same thing. As I said, I  
> did try for several hours, but the
> iostreams documentation is so difficult I could not figure it out.

I have a working version that I could send. It is just a few lines of  
code.

Matthias