Re: Vector of types
On Dec 13, 6:06 pm, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
I tried with a simpler example and it surprisingly works!!
Stream Packet::toStream() const
{
Stream res;
// use the field list to get the stuff out
for (size_t i=0; i < fields.size(); ++i) {
std::cout << typeid(*fields[i]).name() << std::endl;
res += FieldHeader::sizeField(*fields[i]);
}
return FieldHeader::typeField(res, type);
}
For what definition of "works"? You have no control over what
typeid().name() returns. It varies greatly from implementation
to implementation, and may change from one version to the next
within a given implementation. For all practical purposes,
typeid().name() is useless except for debugging messages (and
in some implementations, like g++, it's useless for that as
well).
The usual way to handle serialization is to hand write the
serialization of the fundamental types, and then use a code
generator for the rest: define a simple "language" to specify
the serializable data types, and write a simple program (often
in a scripting language like AWK) to "compile" it to C++, with
the necessary functions.
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