chuchusoft.com serialization library 0.8beta

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Rationale

3. Features

3.1. General

3.2. Types

3.3. Pointers

3.4. STL

3.5. STL std::tr1

3.6. stdext

3.7. Loki

3.8. boost

3.9. Intel TBB

4. Requirements

4.1. Building/compiling requirements

4.2. Testing requirements

4.2.1. General testing requirements

4.2.2. Mac OS X testing requirements

4.2.3. Windows testing requirements

4.2.4. POSIX testing requirements

4.3. Deployment requirements

4.3.1. Mac OS X

4.3.2. Windows

4.3.3. POSIX

5. Limitations (and possible work-arounds)

6. Quick tutorial

7. Library architecture

7.1. Source file organisation

7.2. Source code layers

7.3. Deployment file organisation

7.3.1. Mac OS X

7.3.2. Windows

7.3.3. POSIX

8. Using the library

8.1. Building (and testing) the library

8.1.1. Building on Mac OS X

8.1.2. Building on Windows

8.1.3. Building on POSIX systems

8.2. Linking with the library

8.2.1. Linking on Mac OS X

8.2.2. Linking on Windows

8.2.3. Linking on POSIX

9. Serialization rules and options

9.1. Rules

9.2. Instantiating the storage class - template parameters

9.2.1. Pointer tracking option

9.2.2. Polymorphic pointer option

9.2.3. Backend option

9.3. Instantiating the storage class - constructor parameters

9.4. Selecting third party library support

9.5. Selecting the type traits library

9.6. Selecting RTTI support

10. Serializing native C++ types

10.1. Serializing numeric data

10.2. Serializing pointers

10.2.1. Pointer tracking

10.2.2. Polymorphic pointers

10.3. Serializing arrays

11. Serializing user defined types

11.1. Serializing user defined types - intrusive non-split

11.2. Serializing user defined types - non-intrusive non-split

11.3. Serializing user defined types - non-intrusive split

12. Serializing date/time data

13. Serializing text data

14. Serializing binary data

15. Serializing the Standard Library and other library types

15.1. Serializing STL (std) types

15.2. Serializing std::tr1 types

15.3. Serializing stdext types

15.4. Serializing Loki types

15.5. Serializing boost types

15.6. Serializing Intel TBB types

16. Advanced topics

16.1. Serializing multiple data sets into the same database file

16.2. Partially loading serialized data

17. Database file format

17.1. SQL data types

17.2. SQL table usage

17.3. SQL table names

17.4. SQL NULL entries

17.5. Storage of container objects

18. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

19. Version history

20. Contact Information