Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Serializing derived

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Serializing derived
From: Brown, Matt (Matt.Brown_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-18 17:39:21

Hi Daniel,

You may have already considered this option, but what if you were to require a template argument for which the user could pass a serialization behavior class ... much like an allocator for STL containers.

I.E.
YOUR CODE:
template <typename T, typename serialize_T>
struct container
{
  void serialize(unsigned version) {serialize_T::do(data, version);}
  virtual ~container() = default;
  T data;
};

USER'S CODE:
struct my_serialize
{
  static void do(SOME_TYPE data, unsigned version) {<user does what's needed here>}
};
typedef container<SOME_TYPE, my_serialize> my_container;

Maybe of some help to you?

-- Matt

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