[Boost-users] Calculating needed space for Boost.Serialization

From: Ioannis Papadopoulos (ipapadop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-22 20:20:24

Hi,

I want to calculate exactly how much space it is needed to serialize a 
number of objects. What I'm thinking is another class that implements 
the Saving Archive concept and only invokes sizeof() rather than 
actually writing anything.

 From what I understand I should overload the << and & operators for 
this class to call save() or serialize() on the object, unless it is a 
POD (in which case the size is already known).

Has this been done before?

Thanks