I've been out of town, so I haven't had the chance to look back at this issue until today. This is the code for the non-intrusive serializer: template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive & ar, SWHandle & handle, const unsigned int version) { std::string strHelper( handle.toCharString() ); ar & make_nvp("swhandle_guid", strHelper); handle = strHelper.c_str(); } I don't have access to the internal data of SWHandle, so I am trying to work around that in the functions so that it work for both serialization and deserialization (since I'm not aware of an easy way to split them like you can the class version). The namespaces shouldn't be an issue (in this case, everything is operating in the global namespace). I'm not seeing any real difference between my code and the Jared
Double check the example test_nonintrusive and compare it to your case. Check the following:
a) const vs non const parameters b) unsigned vs int declarations for version c) namespace. Since vc 7.1 implements ADL its best for the specializations to be in the same namespace as the datatype being serialized.
Robert Ramey
"Jared McIntyre" <jmcintyre@dfsoftware.com> wrote in message news:a06110401bdc439f0fdf5@[192.168.1.101]...
I have a class that I am serializing using the non-intrusive method. It serializes just fine, but when I code the input stream, the compiler complains that the class doesn't implement the serialize function (which is, of course, true since I'm am doing the non-intrusive method on this class). Any idea what could be going wrong? The class I'm wrapping is being serialized as part of another class (if that helps at all).
Visual Studio 7.1 Boost 1.32.0 tar ball Wide character XML output
Jared McIntyre