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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-31 16:42:16

You could, or you could just not call these functions and
maybe include an "assert" in case you do it by accident.

Robert Ramey

Peter S. wrote:
> 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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