Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Support for smart pointers?

29 Jan 2009

      Never mind, I happened to stumble across the answer. I was looking through
the unit tests for Boost.Serialization and noticed that while scoped_ptr was
not used anywhere, shared_ptr was. So I check out the header files and I see
a . And behold, I can deserialize into a
scoped_ptr!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Robert Dailey  wrote:
...
Hi,
The documentation for Boost.Serialization states that support for
loading/saving pointers is fully supported out of the box. However, what if
I want to use smart pointers, such a boost::scoped_ptr?
Right now I believe I would have to do this:
Foo* foo1;
archive & foo1;
boost::scoped_ptr<Foo> foo2( foo1 );
I was thinking it would be convenient to avoid the extra variable (foo1)
and do this:
boost::scoped_ptr<Foo> foo2;
archive & foo2;
Is this possible?