I am wrapping my head around archive, specifically binary archive.

I'd like to serialize a vector of objects in such a way, I need to capture intermediate vector buffers (literally, to vector of uint8_t) so that I can determine their sizes.

After which point the parent object(s) can serialize to file using more conventional, built-in file streams and such.

It seems that binary_oarchive is helpful, but still requires there be an ostream or streambuf in the mix. Which, as an adapter layer, while helpful, it still leaves the question of extending streambuf to work with ostream to vector open.

I've read some docs on vectors and streambuf, but they all seem to be geared towards a known-size vector, istream and such. I am interested in a vector that can be streamed to, will grow in size, etc. Some clues seem to hint at underflow, overflow type issues?

Any helpful pointers how to go about doing this?

Rather than serializing to a vector, can you not serialize to a stringstream opened in binary mode? I believe that will still give you all the information you require? HTH, John.

Hi Michael, I've used something like this for writing: typedef std::vector<char> BufferType; typedef boost::iostreams::stream OBufferStream; typedef boost::archive::binary_oarchive OutArchive; Buffertype my_data_array; OBufferStream buffer_stream(my_data_array); OutArchive archive(buffer_stream); archive << ... //normal boost::serialization thing here and reading: typedef boost::iostreams::stream IBufferStream; typedef boost::archive::binary_iarchive InArchive; IBufferStream i_buffer_stream(&my_data_array[0], my_data_array.size()); InArchive i_archive(i_buffer_strea,) archive << ... //normal boost::serialization thing here This works fine at the cost of one copy of the array for reading, and gives you the advantage of knowing the buffer size of the serialized data. Note, the code is more or less out of the top of my head, so I cannot guarantee it is compiling. cheer Sebastian

Hello,

I am wrapping my head around archive, specifically binary archive.

I'd like to serialize a vector of objects in such a way, I need to capture intermediate vector buffers (literally, to vector of uint8_t) so that I can determine their sizes.

After which point the parent object(s) can serialize to file using more conventional, built-in file streams and such.

It seems that binary_oarchive is helpful, but still requires there be an ostream or streambuf in the mix. Which, as an adapter layer, while helpful, it still leaves the question of extending streambuf to work with ostream to vector open.

I've read some docs on vectors and streambuf, but they all seem to be geared towards a known-size vector, istream and such. I am interested in a vector that can be streamed to, will grow in size, etc. Some clues seem to hint at underflow, overflow type issues?

Any helpful pointers how to go about doing this?

Thanks...

Best regards,

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