Hi Merrill, Currently Boost.Serialization supports XML and "text" archives, although XDR is reportedly in the near future. As for the specifications for the "text" format, I recently posed this question to Robert Ramey himself: *************************************************** Short answer is no. Information on this can be found as comments in the source code. Look in one of the library files *_archive.cpp. I forget which ones. I know this might seem odd but there is a good reason. Archives are defined in pairs - saving and loading. The only real requirement is that the be mutually compatible. This permits the same user code to support very wide differences in archive types from binary to xml and who knows what else. That is, the archive format for say a text_?archive could be documented for external use but it is considered an implementation detail text_archives. You might consider xml_archives for this job. It would still be something of a job, but it would be much easier because the xml archives are human readable. Good Luck. Robert Ramey -----Original Message----- From: Adam McLaurin [mailto:adam.mclaurin@fastmail.fm] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 6:45 PM To: ramey@rrsd.com Subject: Documentation on Boost text archive format Hi Robert, I am using the Boost.Serialization text archive to serialize my data before putting it out on the wire. However, I have found absolutely no documentation that actually defines the format. I anticipate that there will be Java consumers of my data, so I'd like to be able to provide them with the format specifications so that they can implement their own deserializer. Do you have any format specifications that I could distribute? Thanks, Adam McLaurin *************************************************** On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:57:14 -0600 (GMT-06:00), "Merrill Cornish" <merrill.cornish@earthlink.net> said:
What external file format does the Boost Serialization Library use?
The introduction to the library states the requirement that serialization written by one machine must be readable by a different machine. And, elsewhere, it mentions that and XML intermediate file is on possibility; but I can't seem to find what the format being used is.
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