aptakhin / bike

C++ stuff. Template serialization included.

Bike stuff

Different stuff. Currently consists of one library — s11n (serialization).

s11n (unstable)

C++ serialization library with Boost.Serialization-like interface with such improvements:

• Header-only. 2 files and less 2k lines of ubertemplatesgodkillskittenscode per one serializer format. Add one file for STL support
• Serialization of objects, which code can't be changed (out of class serialization with few limitations)
• Decreased compiler error lines per one mistake (it's more useful to read 50 lines of C++ errors than 100, yes?)

Other features:

• Non-default constructors support
• Serialization of inherited objects
• Serialization of shared objects
• Support for optional data with default values
• C++11 ready, C++03 compatible

Has full-featured formats:

• XML
• Binary

And also lightweight for machine-independent encoding/decoding Streamed Binary.

Read how to use s11n Warning Library is not ready for production purposes, because there is no warranty of stability of serialization format and API until stable version releases.

Acknowledgements

Bike uses pugixml library (http://pugixml.org). pugixml is Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Arseny Kapoulkine.

Bike uses Google Test library (https://code.google.com/p/googletest/). Google Test is Copyright 2005, Google Inc.

bike's Issues

Cross-platform type names

Need something more cross-platform (and cross-compiler) than std::type_info::name() for determination needed class for construction.

JSON format

Need json serialization format.

Support for serialization out of class

Need to deal with classes, which wasn't written with s11n support.
There must be function out of class, which will have access to class members by get_/set_ access.

Writing pod data

For short attributes writing in XML.
Must have in Binary format.

XML format

Need xml serialization format.

Tests for version changes