Need help in serialization

4 Aug 2006

      Hi All,
Currently I am using the boost serialization library to serialize and the
following structure:

typedef list<int> testList;
typedef testList::iterator lIter;
typedef map testMap;
typedef testMap::iterator tIter;
testMap _tMap;
   template<class Archive>
   void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version)
   {
     ar & _tMap;
   }

int main()
{

  test_map tm;
  ofstream ofs("map_details.txt");

  tm.fillMap();
  //tm.display();

  boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs);
  oa << (const test_map)tm;
  ofs.close();

  test_map newTm;
  ifstream ifs("map_details.txt", std::ios::binary);
  boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs);
  ia >> newTm;
  ifs.close();

  newTm.display();
}

In the above code, I am saving the map to a binary file and retrieving it
from the file. Instead of that I would want to serialize the data into a
char buffer and restore it from the buffer.

This is useful for message communication, where I would like to send the map
as a message from one process to another using socket communications.

Can you any one let me know, how this can be done in boost?

Regards,
Anil

Anil Krishna

Robert Ramey

Anil Krishna

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