Re: Serialization
Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com> writes:
What is gained by the Serializable base class?
I'd write it like this:
class PadNodeID
{
protected:
void SendMemberData(SendCompressedBuffer* buf) const;
public:
template <typename R>
explicit PadNodeID(ReceiveCompressedBuffer<R>* buf);
void CalculateMarshallingSize(Counter& cntr) const;
void
Send(SendCompressedBuffer* buf, bool = false) const
{
SendMemberData(buf);
}
};
Nothing in practice, but it's an interface that when implemented would
force the programmer to avoid implementing some needed functions.
Of course I can also just implement those functions and that's it.
But I like this
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
template <typename R>
explicit PadNodeID(ReceiveCompressedBuffer<R>* buf);
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Why do you use a pointer here instead of a reference?
And I finally only read now about the explicit, which if I understand
force you to not write something like
PadNodeID p = buffer;
with automatic conversion, but is that really useful or just something
nice to have in these situations?
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