From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-11 16:45:36
Carlo Wood wrote:
> 1) WHY does boost::serialization not support serialization
> of iterators?
It's very hard, if not impossible, in general.
> 3) My original question hasn't been answered: How can
> one serialize iterators with boost::serialization?
If you have access to the container to which the iterator i refers:
a) if the container is a map, you can serialize i->first, then on
deserialization look up the key in the map using .find();
b) if the container is a sequence, and it has the same contents on
deserialization as it does on serialization, you can serialize the index of
the element - distance( c.begin(), i ).