<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- (C) Copyright 2002-10 Robert Ramey - http://www.rrsd.com . Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../boost.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> <title>Serialization - Derivation from an Existing Archive</title> </head> <body link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080"> <table border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="header"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"> <h3><a href="../../../index.htm"><img height="86" width="277" alt="C++ Boost" src="../../../boost.png" border="0"></a></h3> </td> <td valign="top"> <h1 align="center">Serialization</h1> <h2 align="center">A Simple Logging Archive Class</h2> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> The purpose of this example help clarify the usage of the <a href="archives.html"><strong>Archive Concept</strong></a> so that one can implement his own archive classes. <a href="../example/simple_log_archive.hpp" target="simple_archive_hpp"> <code>simple_log_archive.hpp</code></a> implements a simple but useful archive class. This class can be used to send any serializable types on an output text stream in a readable format. Usage of this facility is trivially easy: <pre><code> #include "simple_log_archive.hpp" ... // display the complete schedule simple_log_archive log(std::cout); log << schedule; </code></pre> and it produces the following output <pre><code> schedule count 6 item first driver bob hour 6 minute 24 second -> stops count 3 item -> latitude degrees 34 minutes 135 seconds 52.56 longitude degrees 134 minutes 22 seconds 78.3 ... </code></pre> The complete example is <a href="../example/demo_simple_log.cpp" target="demo_simple_log_cpp"> <code>demo_simple_log.cpp</code></a>. Look at <a href="archive_reference.html#trivial">Trivial Archive</a> to get a better understanding of how this works. Also, note the following: <ul> <li>Only 160 lines of code. <li>Header only - linking with the serialization library not required. <li>Displays ALL <a href="serialization.html"><strong>Serializable</strong></a> types. <li>Lacks some features. <ul> <li>it will not display the data from the derived type given the pointer to a polymorphic base class. That is, only displays the information of the base class. To add that see the next example. <li>doesn't display information serialized as binary data </ul> </ul> <hr> <p><i>© Copyright <a href="http://www.rrsd.com">Robert Ramey</a> 2002-2010. Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) </i></p> </body> </html>