troy d. straszheim wrote:
Hey,
Here's an autoregistering serializable any, I think it qualifies as hacky and suboptimal. Of course the typeid(T).name() strings aren't portable,
if you use serialization/extended_type_info, instead of typeid(T)name() you can use the strings used by BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT which are portable.
and the implementation gets a little intimate with the mechanics of registration, but it works... You could make this less intrusive, I suppose, but without the venerable
#define private public
technique (still one of my all time favorite hacks) I don't think you're going to get it completely nonintrusive.
It looks like a good start. Perhaps a "little something" should be added to the public interface of boost::any to support serialization. Robert Ramey