Re: [boost] Jason is getting MARRIED!

On 12/8/19 10:01 AM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:

On 12/8/19 8:02 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 3:45 AM Bjorn Reese via Boost wrote:

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Should there be a JSON archive for Boost.Serialization?

Yes.

The archive should be immune to reordering of keys.

an "archive" in the sense used by boost serialization is not and cannot be immune to the reordering of keys.

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That is, that the archive can be correctly deserialized even if the keys are reordered in the JSON after serialization.

an "archive" in the sense used by boost serialization cannot do this. Of course, if compatibility with the current Boost Serialization library is not a consideration then one can define "archive" anyway he wants. If wants to make a different serialization library, again, one could define "archive" in accordance with that new library. I remember that I got the word "archive" from the MS MFC library which used this term and handles the same way. The above is true of all other libraries that I know about which refer to themselves as "serialization libraries". This included MS .Net, Cereal, and others. FYI - Cereal includes an archive based on JSON I believe if you want to look at it. I've tried to explain why serialization does not imply the facility to edit an archive in a general sense. I'm not sure how much more to say about this. Robert Ramey