Missing uuid_io.hpp in uuid_serialize.hpp

[Filippov Aleksey <sarum9in@…>]

Probably it is not a bug, but my misunderstanding the conception.

Suppose we want to serialize uuid using boost::serialization library through text_[io]archive. If we include only uuid_serialize.hpp and uuid.hpp headers we will get "strange" (particularly for me) compilation error. I found out that the error was omission uuid_io.hpp header: archive class uses iostream operations for serialization.

So the question will be: is it correct to not include uuid_io.hpp into uuid_serialize.hpp header?

Thank you.

[Andy Tompkins]

Hmm, I understand what you are saying. Normally the serialization library would use specific functions written for a class. I do not believe that uuid_io.hpp is needed when using a binary archive.
I wanted to make uuid a primitive, i.e. BOOST_CLASS_IMPLEMENTATION(uuid, boost::serialization::primitive_type) (see http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/serialization/doc/index.html). I now wonder if this may have been a bad decision. Or maybe I should have done it via boost::serialization::is_bitwise_serializable. My goal was to use only 16 bytes when serializing to a binary archive.

[James E. King, III <jking@…>]

Given this has been open for 6 years and there have been no further comments, I would recommend closing this as "No Plan to Fix" or "Invalid".