Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] compare two archives?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] compare two archives?
From: James C. Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-19 15:19:30

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jeff Flinn
<TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> James C. Sutherland wrote:
>
>> It appears that the operator == is not supported on an archive.
>>
>> Is there a way to compare two archives for equality without instantiating
>> all objects in the archive and looking at equality of the objects?
>>
>
> Wouldn't you just compare the underlying storage of the archived data? Such
> as the resulting file, or string from a ostringstream.
>
> Not sure what your are trying to accomplish.
>
>
Really I just want to compare two archives that I have read in for equality.

      ifstream file1( tname1.c_str(), std::ios_base::in );
      InputArchive ar1(file1);
      ar1 >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(tbl1);

      ifstream file2( tname2.c_str(), std::ios_base::in );
      InputArchive ar2(file2);
      ar2 >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(tbl2);

So at this point I could compare file1 and file2 or ar1 ar2 or tbl1 and
tbl2.
Comparing equality on tbl1 and tbl2 is a bit tedious, so if I could directly
compare either the files or the archives that would help.

Hopefully that clarifies my question.

James