Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Runtime checking of types indeserialization

28 Oct 2008

      XML archives check that the reading tag matches the writing tag.

This is convenient and helpful for checking your code even
if you don't plan to use xml archives on your deliverable.

Robert Ramey

Frank Winklmeier wrote:
...
Hi,
is there any way to check whether the class type used in
deserialization is identical to the class type in the serialization?
Below is a simple example, that serializes class "Data" into a text
archive and deserializes this archive into class "StringData". If
that happens I would like an exception to be thrown. Is this possible?
Thanks for any help,
Frank
#include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
class Data {
public:
  Data() { for (int i=0; i<100; i++) a[i]=i; };
  int a[100];
template<class Archive>
  void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int) { ar & a; }
};
class StringData {
public:
  StringData() {};
  string s;
template<class Archive>
  void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int) { ar & s; }
};
int main() {
ostringstream oss;
// Serialize the class
  const Data d1;
  {
    boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(oss);
    oa << d1;
  }
// Deserialize it using the wrong type
  StringData d2;
  {
    istringstream iss(oss.str());
    boost::archive::text_iarchive ia(iss);
    ia >> d2;
  }
cout << oss.str() << endl;
  cout << d2.s << endl;
}
Output:
=======
22 serialization::archive 4 0 0 100 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36