Re: [Boost-users] Optional XML serialization

On 23 February 2010 17:25, Rutger ter Borg wrote:

Paul wrote:

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It seems to me that ptree is designed only for the most basic of configuration requirements. right?

Right, although I think there's some support for recursion (getting a ptree out of a ptree). If you would like edit your configuration files outside your program (or even across programs!), I would be very hesitant to use Boost.Serialization.

I agree with you, but in this case editing the configuration file should only be required as a last resort. IDEA: We could make the serialization XML format more robust if we were able to add the tracking and version tag to *every* , and drop the class_id. At least then its much more easy to hack the XML config file. At the moment you need to predict the class_id which is more than you can expect of anyone, including a programmer, trying to adjust the XML config file. If the config file is mangled incorrectly, then I would want the serialisation load to fail rather than (in the case of ptree) fail gracefully. My biggest concern is config file upgrading might become too complex to manage if I need to change my app significantly. I guess I'll just try and manage that.