Re: [Boost-users] Serialization Question

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Serialization Question
From: Paul Dugas (paul_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-08 18:27:26

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Paul Dugas wrote:
>> I'm looking into recording some data collected by one of my programs
>> into rotating files. Â Something like so:
>>
>> ofstream ofs;
>> boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(ofs)
>> size_t rotate = 0;
>> for(;;)
>> {
>> foo_t foo = get_some_foo();
>> if (!rotate)
>> Â  {
>> Â  Â  ofs.open(some_clever_new_filename);
>> Â  Â  // attach oa again?
>> Â  Â  rotate = 1000;
>> Â  }
>> oa << foo;
>> if (!--rotate)
>> Â  {
>> Â  Â  ofs.close();
>> Â  Â  // detach oa?
>> Â  }
>> }
>>
>> Do I need to do anything to detach or re-attach the oarchive?
>>
>> Paul
>
> can't re-use the same archive in tis case.
>
> Robert Ramey

I'm looking through the code trying to find the ctor and dtor for the
archives and can't find anything substantial yet; all empty dtors so
far.  Is the archive "light" enough to create/destroy with each
iteration?  Or do I need to new/delete it to keep it through the loop
iterations?

Paul