Serialization

Contents

Release Notes

Requirements
Platforms
Differences from Draft #20
Pending Issues

Requirements
Other Implementations

A Very Simple Case
Non Intrusive Version
Serializable Members
Derived Classes
Pointers
Arrays
STL Collections
Class Versioning
Splitting serialize into save/load
Archives

Archive Class Usage

Archive Classes

Library Interface

Saving Interface
Loading Interface

Details by Type

Primitive Types
Class Types
Base Classes
Pointers
References

Character Sets

Class Serialization

Special Considerations

Archive Class Reference

Implementation
Usage
Testing
Polymorphic Archives

Implementation Notes

Partial Function Template Ordering
Character Encoding
Template Invocation syntax
Partial Template Specialization
Specific Compiler/Library Issues GCC 3.x GCC 2.95 Intel 8.0 Visual C++ 7.1 Visual C++ 7.0 Visual C++ 6.0 Borland 5.64 Borland 5.51 Dinkumware Library
Code Structure Files Included by User Programs Serialization Declarations Serialization Implementations Archive Implementations Files Which Implement the Library Archive Development Archive Internals Archive Library Code Modules Dataflow Iterators

Case Studies

Template serialization - shared_ptr<class T>
PIMPL
Derivation from an Existing Archive Class

Miscellaneous

utf-8 code_cvt
BOOST_STRONG_TYPEDEF
state_saver
Dataflow Iterators
smart_cast
BOOST_STATIC_WARNING

Bibliography

Acknowledgments