[boost] Re: [serialize] xml archives and versioning

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-23 03:50:19

Robert,

test_class_info_load and test_class_info_save both passed for 
xml_archive but I have created a test (attached) which fails for version 
0 xml archives.  Can you try this please?

It creates an object with version 0, writes it to an xml archive 
(currently hard-coded to drive c so I could check the output file 
easily), and then reads it back in.

As mentioned before: when reading in the object, the version is passed 
in to serialize as 3, not 0 as it should be.

For XML files: there is no version attribute for the object when the 
version is 0, so maybe this is the problem.

Thanks

Russell

Robert Ramey wrote:
> I rebuilt and reran the the tests "test_class_info_load" and
> "test_class_info_save"  which are explicitly designed to test this
> functionality.  I ran these test with XML archives.  Do these tests pass for
> you?  How is this situation different than yours?  I updated the test
> sliightly so that the class version jumps from 2 to 4 - skipping over 3 so
> that a confusion between serialization library version and class version
> wouldn't be overlooked.
> 
> Robert Ramey
> 
> 
> 
> "Russell Hind" <rh_gmane_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:clacr8$u01$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> 
>>Robert Ramey wrote:
>>
>>>There is a confusion here.  Check the manual section titled "Class
>>>Versioning"
>>>
>>>There should be something like:
>>>
>>>BOOST_CLASS_VERSION(Test_c, 99)
>>>
>>>in your code.  I don't remember what the maximum class version might be
> 
> but
> 
>>>it could be small like 255 for binary archives.
>>>
>>
>>I did ask about this in the previous e-mail.  I thought non-primitive
>>types were, by default, versioned, i.e. if no BOOST_CLASS_VERSION is
>>specified, they have a version of 0.  Is this not the case?
>>
>>Anyway, the code I posted still gives odd results if I set
>>BOOST_CLASS_VERSION(Test_c, 0).  Anything but 0 works, but zero gives
>>the effects described previously, a 3 on the way back in, which is your
>>archive version, not the class version.
>>
>>Again, specifying no version works for text archives (haven't checked
>>binary) but not for XML.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Russell
>>
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// test_class_info_load.cpp: test implementation level trait

// (C) Copyright 2002 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)

// test implementation level "object_class_info"
// should pass compilation and execution

#include <cstdio>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

#include <boost/static_assert.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/level.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/tracking.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/version.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/nvp.hpp>

#include <boost/archive/tmpdir.hpp>
#include <boost/preprocessor/stringize.hpp>

#include <boost/archive/xml_iarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/xml_oarchive.hpp>
#include "test_tools.hpp"

class A
{
public:
        template <typename ArchiveT>
        void serialize(ArchiveT& ar, const unsigned int version)
        {
                if (ArchiveT::is_loading::value)
                {
                        BOOST_CHECK(version == 0);
                }
        }
};

BOOST_CLASS_VERSION(A, 0)

void in(const char *testfile, A& a)
{
        {
        std::ofstream ofs(testfile);
        boost::archive::xml_oarchive xoa(ofs);
                xoa & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(a);
        }

        {
        std::ifstream ifs(testfile);
        boost::archive::xml_iarchive xia(ifs);
                xia & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(a);
        }
}

int
test_main( int /* argc */, char* /* argv */[] )
{
    A a;
    std::string filename;
    filename += boost::archive::tmpdir();
    filename += '/';
    filename += BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(testfile_);
    filename += BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(BOOST_ARCHIVE_TEST);
//    in(filename.c_str(), a, b);
        in("c:\\test.xml", a);
    return boost::exit_success;
}

// EOF