Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] load_binary/save_binary purpose

From: Peter S. (peterst_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-31 13:29:39

ok, in this case, I have some additional questions:

I'm trying to write (well, I haven't even started yet to be honest  
because I feel like I have to understand the library first) an archive  
that writes to a (sql) database backend...
Now you can't just append some binary data to a database table, so the  
save/load_binary methods would not work very well here. Is it safe to  
just define them to do nothing?

> This function does exactly what it says.  It appends/retrieves raw  
> data
> to/from the archive.
>
> This can be used for various purpose.  Here are some examples.
>
> a) binary_archive implements the serialization of primitive types  
> through
> this interface.
> b) suppose you retrieved some binary data from source - like an image
> in a format you don't care about - and wanted to store it in archive
> to be retrieved later.  You could load/save binary to do this.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
>
>
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