Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Binary archive headers?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Binary archive headers?
From: Kim Barrett (kab.conundrums_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-26 00:03:16

At 6:03 PM -0500 8/25/09, Robert Dailey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking at the streambuf filled with data after I do this:
>
>   boost::asio::streambuf buf;
>   std::ostream stream( &buf );
>   boost::archive::binary_oarchive archive( stream );
>   archive << "Hello World";
>
>And I see that there's a lot of binary data that preceeds the "Hello 
>World" data. Looks like custom header information that 
>boost::serialization inserts into the stream. Is there a way to 
>prevent any automatic header information from being inserted into 
>the archive's stream? I'm using this serialized buffer to 
>communicate with a device over a COM port and I can't have this 
>extra information in my buffer.

Include the boost::archive::no_header flag in the optional second argument
to the archive constructor.