Re: Partial serialization of a program

From: Gavin Lambert (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-11-06 22:46:48

On 4/11/2022 22:40, Markus Lavin wrote:
> Ideally though it would be nice if, by some C++ magic, one could tell 
> Boost serialization that pointers to this particular class require 
> special handling (i.e. using the map to get the unique id) and then 
> serialize them as normal in the serialize template. That way not all 
> users of the framework of my program would need to know deeper details 
> of the serialization strategy.

That's simple enough: just write a smart pointer class that contains 
that deserialization lookup logic.