David Abrahams wrote:
Overload serialize in the namespace of your class.
Then write another, possibly uglier, recommendation that works on all supported compilers. If you have to use macros, that's fine. E.g.,
// somewhere in the serialization library #if BOOST_NO_ARGUMENT_DEPENDENT_LOOKUP # define BOOST_SERIALIZE(namespace) serialize #else # define BOOST_SERIALIZE(namespace) namespace::serialize #endif
// user code namespace my { namespace ns { class my_class { ... };
template <class A> void serialize(A&, my_class); // declaration (unused in non-ADL case) }}
// definition template <class Archive> void BOOST_SERIALIZE(my::ns)(Archive& ar, ny::ns::my_class& x) { ... }
That sounds like what I did for version 1.32. I considered a very ugly hack. I don't think I was the only person that felt this way. I resolved to fix it in the next version - and here we are. oh well. Robert Ramey