Serialize and send a data structure using Boost?

Question

I have a data structure that looks like this:

typedef struct
{
  unsigned short m_short1;
  unsigned short m_short2;
  unsigned char m_character;
} MyDataType;
         


        

Answer 1

I thought I'd share this with anyone who was trying to serialize a C++ struct using Boost. For the example given above, to make the struct serializable you would add a serialize function:

typedef struct
{
  unsigned short m_short1;
  unsigned short m_short2;
  unsigned char m_character;

  template 
  void serialize(Archive& ar, const unsigned int version)
  {
    ar & m_short1;
    ar & m_short2;
    ar & m_character;
  }
} MyDataType;