Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Handling of references into a std::map

Johan Råde writes:

Bernhard Maeder wrote:

You could save a reference to the map and the value of the key for the element. When you load the archive, you can use that information to reconstruct the

reference to the element.

--Johan Råde

Yes, I could do that, but it would be more complicated. In my real application, I don't keep the references to that map's values in the same place with the map; the reconstruction process would thus influence many other components as well, which I wouldn't want to do. If I understand Boost.Serialization correctly (and that is of course in doubt here! :-), it is able to accomplish these things for you and should thus make the serialization code much less verbose. Bernhard