[Boost-users] serialization of large complex structure

From: Diane (dbutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-26 15:44:44

I have a large, complex struct that is made up of many levels of structs,
getting eventually to int, char*, enum, etc. There are also pointers to structs
and arrays of pointers. There are no STL types within these structures.

I am trying to wrap my head around how I can use boost.serialization for this,
without modifying the structures themselves (I can't make changes to the
definitions). 

Does anyone know the best way to do this? I saw several mentions of wrapper
classes for serializing a float and figure I could use that approach, but I
think I would have to make a mirror structure that's made up of my struct
wrappers and copy the data over from the real struct into these classes. Or I
guess I could use pointers, but I would still have to create this second
monster. Is that really the best possibility?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Diane