Re: [Boost-users] Serialization newbie, memory being overwritten?

I had thought along the same line. I think that's a good idea Nat. For now, I'm just using serialize to instantiate the object and then filling in the remaining fields. A bit hacky, but it works. Regardless - I thank you for taking the time to help get my head on straight with regards to how serialization works in the context I was in Nat. I appreciate it! :) On 28-11-2012 22:43, Nat Linden wrote:

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Lasse Laursen wrote:

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I'm all ears for an opinion on the approach. It would just appear to me that serialization is appealing to keep the code simple and still be quite flexible.

What about breaking out the metadata you want to serialize as a class, or family of classes, separate from the audio data you don't need to serialize? You could make the audio class point to an instance of the concrete metadata class, or vice-versa, or have a holder class reference both. In any case, the point would be to de/serialize all fields of the metadata class.