On 12 May 2008, at 17:14, Victor Whiskey Yankee wrote:

Matthias Troyer wrote:

On 12 May 2008, at 01:20, Victor Whiskey Yankee wrote:

Hello, I need to serialize into and from a memory buffer using boost::archive::binary_oarchive and binary_iarchive. Using std::stringstream does not work (it does work with text_oarchive and text_iarchive in memory and using files). I found a mention in the archives about similar need here: http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/10/31580.php But I cannot figure it out.

Have you tried using the Boost IO Stream library to create a stream that buffers in memory and use that with a binary archive?

The posting I mentioned above suggests the same thing. As I said, I did try for several hours, but the
iostreams documentation is so difficult I could not figure it out. 

I have a working version that I could send. It is just a few lines of code.