Re: serialize a structure (with MFC)?

Since our struct contains other object I think you would be wise to send
this in some sort of readable format such as comma delimited (convert ints
to ASCII). You would also need some sort of indication as to how may floats
are in the vector, etc. This would make it tons easier to debug and
maintain.

Tom

"markww" <markww@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a data structure that looks like this:

    struct MY_STRUCT {
        int x,y,z;
        string str1;
        string str2;
        vector<float> vfloats1;
        vector<float> vfloats2;
    }

I'm trying to save this structure into a 3rd party file to be read back

later. I was told I could serialize this structure into a stream of
bytes and then dump it into the file.

For this type of stuff I'm used to creating a delimited version of the
struct, using pipes for example:

x|y|z|str1.length|str1|str2.length|str2|vfloats1.size()|vfloats1|vfloats2.s?ize()|vfloats|

but I'm wondering if there is a simpler way of 'serializing' the
structure into a stream of bytes? I am using MFC in my application and
was wondering if maybe the MFC method of serialization could work? I
just don't understand how I would set that up, because basically at the
end of serialization I need to hand the 3rd party function something
like this:

    3rdParty.SetByteStream(MySerializedStruct);

Thanks