On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:39 PM, iwg molw5 <iwg.molw5@gmail.com> wrote:
struct Object : serializable <Object, value <NAME("x"), big_endian <uint32_t>>, value <NAME("y"), big_endian <uint32_t>>> { };
A "serialization" library is concerned with writing and reading the state of objects depending on their type. In general, this is not equivalent to simply writing and reading of the objects' members. What you're defining seems to be a dictionary-type of structure: type-safe map of names to objects. It can be implemented as follows: struct dictionary; shared_ptr<dictionary> create_empty_dictionary(); template <class T> T & bind_element( dictionary &, name const & ); Given a dictionary d, we can create/bind elements it contains: uint32_t & x=bind_element<uint32_t>(d,name("x")); uint32_t & y=bind_element<uint32_t>(d,name("y")); Serialization can then be supported through a separate library (for example Boost Serialization) in terms of loading and saving dictionary objects (implemented in terms of loading and saving the types they contain, according to the serialization library interface.) Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode