
I am writing a packet base class that can be serialized. The class so far looks like: class packet_base { using namespace boost; public: packet_base(); ~packet_base(); friend class boost::serialization::access; template <typename Archive> void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version) { ar & m_length; ar & m_type; ar & m_method; } private: uint16_t m_length; uint16_t m_type; uint16_t m_method; }; The question now is how can I derive class A from packet_base and have both packet_base and A's variables serialized? Obviously base_class needs to be archived first so it's variables are at the front of the buffer. Thanks in advance. J