SeskaPeel wrote:
Hi,
I'm considering integrating boost::serialize in our application, mainly for its deep pointer restoration, but I fear some features are missing.
1/ First, we are using multiple files, which can be created at different moments. The main reason is that we want to be able to share resources contained in one file for multiple projects. An alarm rung in my head telling me that serialize won't be able to handle this case,
why not?
am I wrong?
I think so.
2/ And secondly, we want to be able to load files progressively, say 100KB by 100KB. Once the file is completely loaded, the pointer restoration can happen. Does serialize support such feature or plan to? If this is not a huge work, is there a way to provide help to get this feature quickly?
I'm not sure what this means. Taking a wild guess, I would seem that want you might want to do is run serialization on a separate thread. If you want to "interrupt or suspend that thread, this would require support from a custom archive. Such a custom archive would be derived from one of the existing ones.
Today, we have a manual phase of association that is called after all files are loaded. Each time we load a new file, we "post-load" all the resources contained in it, and pointer restoration is achieved this way.
In the serialization library, pointers are restored "on the fly" (depth first). Robert Ramey