[Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

From: Andrea Denzler (andrea_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-08 06:08:57

If you send a byte, a byte should arrive.
If you send a wchar_t it has a different size on different platforms.
If you send a integer it has different endianess (byte order). 
Maybe this last point is your issue. You have the same problem with file
formats.

Andrea

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
[mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] Per conto di Ákos Maróy
Inviato: venerdì 8 agosto 2008 12.01
A: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Oggetto: [Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

Hi,

I'm working on a cross-platform project, where we're serializing data 
and sending it over TCP, using boost::serialization and boost::asio. As 
the data is quite big, and is mainly numeric, binary serialization 
provides a nice advantage over XML-based serialization, both in terms of 
performance and data size.

But, I've found that the serialized data itself is not cross-platform. 
E.g. if I have  a simple app, that sends serialized data via a TCP 
connection, it works fine as long as both ends of the connection are on 
the same platform (say both are Linux x86_64, or both are Windows XP). 
but they don't interact with each other - the data sent by one platform 
is not accepted 'as is' by the other.

I wonder what provisions have to be done to achieve binary serialization 
that would work in such a context?

Akos
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