cereal
A C++11 library for serialization
cereal::LoadAndConstruct< T > Struct Template Reference

A class that allows cereal to load smart pointers to types that have no default constructor. More...

#include </build/libcereal-SAfJB3/libcereal-1.3.2+dfsg/include/cereal/access.hpp>

Detailed Description

template<class T>
struct cereal::LoadAndConstruct< T >

A class that allows cereal to load smart pointers to types that have no default constructor.

If your class does not have a default constructor, cereal will not be able to load any smart pointers to it unless you overload LoadAndConstruct for your class, and provide an appropriate load_and_construct method. You can also choose to define a member static function instead of specializing this class.

The specialization of LoadAndConstruct must be placed within the cereal namespace:

struct MyType
{
MyType( int x ); // note: no default ctor
int myX;
// Define a serialize or load/save pair as you normally would
template <class Archive>
void serialize( Archive & ar )
{
ar( myX );
}
};
// Provide a specialization for LoadAndConstruct for your type
namespace cereal
{
template <> struct LoadAndConstruct<MyType>
{
// load_and_construct will be passed the archive that you will be loading
// from as well as a construct object which you can use as if it were the
// constructor for your type. cereal will handle all memory management for you.
template <class Archive>
static void load_and_construct( Archive & ar, cereal::construct<MyType> & construct )
{
int x;
ar( x );
construct( x );
}
// if you require versioning, simply add a const std::uint32_t as the final parameter, e.g.:
// load_and_construct( Archive & ar, cereal::construct<MyType> & construct, std::uint32_t const version )
};
} // end namespace cereal
Used to construct types with no default constructor.
Definition: access.hpp:165
void serialize(Archive &, std::less< T > &)
Saving for std::less.
Definition: functional.hpp:39

Please note that just as in using external serialization functions, you cannot get access to non-public members of your class by befriending cereal::access. If you have the ability to modify the class you wish to serialize, it is recommended that you use member serialize functions and a static member load_and_construct function.

load_and_construct functions, regardless of whether they are static members of your class or whether you create one in the LoadAndConstruct specialization, have the following signature:

// generally Archive will be templated, but it can be specific if desired
template <class Archive>
static void load_and_construct( Archive & ar, cereal::construct<MyType> & construct );
// with an optional last parameter specifying the version: const std::uint32_t version

Versioning behaves the same way as it does for standard serialization functions.

Template Parameters
TThe type to specialize for

The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: