Re: [Boost-users] Optional XML serialization

23 Feb 2010

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The code above doesn't describe how I was going to achieve that, but
basically I was going to delegate the serialization of modules,
something like
void load(ar, modules, version)
{
   string module_name;
   ar << module_name;
   ModuleManager::load_if_possible(config.module, module_name);
}
maybe a better option would be to include several archives in one stream.

class header {
    typedef std::pair module
    std::list<module> m_list;
};

void load(stream s, modules, version){
    header h;
    {
        xml_archive xa(s);
        ar >> h;
    }
    foreach(module m in h){
        xml_archive xa(s);
        if(m.:module_type is in modules)
            xar >> ?
        else
            // skip ahead in stream
}
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By the way, is there a reason why there is no YAML archive format?
Why only XML as a human-readable option?
Someone started a project to do this, but I don't know what happened to it.

Robert Ramey