Re: [Boost-users] Runtime properties in BGL

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Runtime properties in BGL
From: Andre de Leiradella (aleirade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-17 00:47:01

I could see that I need to work with Dynamic Property Maps in order to 
read/write GraphML files.

How do I set/get dynamic properties to/from nodes and edges with BGL?

Thanks in advance,

Andre de Leiradella

Andre de Leiradella wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently discovered BGL and am considering using it to replace some 
> graph classes and algorithms I use in an application. One thing that I 
> need is the ability of adding properties to nodes at runtime.
> 
> In my application each node represents an operation to be performed upon 
> a set of inputs and generating one or more outputs. The properties of 
> the nodes are defined in an external file and depend on the node's 
> operation.
> 
> Does BGL support it? Both bundled properties and the property map seem 
> to required the definition of the properties at compile-time, and they 
> seem to required that all nodes have the same set of properties.
> 
> While I could hold each node's properties in an external structure (i.e. 
> std::map), I also want to use read_graphml/write_graphml to load/save 
> the graph along with the node's properties.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Andre de Leiradella
>