Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] skipping data

Joel de Guzman wrote:

You didn't answer my question. What I am asking is what do I write in the commented out portion of the code using only Boost.Serialization interface. I do not want to do any undocumented back-door tricks. I want a way to skip reading some data regardless of what the archive type is.

I don't see a way to do this except in some special cases like xml. Even then it would only work for some cases like tracked pointer data, etc. The basic problem is that Y serializes itself and only Y "knows" its size. So really only Y has the information to know how much to skip - but the problem presupposes that we're not going to have a Y. So I don't think there is anyway to do this. Robert Ramey