Re: the right method to have a stream point to a 'buffer' of data
Thomas Taranowski wrote:
I have a number of classes, in the same class hierarchy, in which I
want to have the capability to save and restore their current state to
a flash card. In other words, I want to add support to 'serialize'
and 'deserialize' the classes. In order to support this, I added the
following 2 methods provide this function:
void serialize(ostream &outputstream);
void deserialize(istream & inputstream);
Now, the typical method as I understand it, would be to open a file
for writing or reading using an fstream, then pass a reference to that
stream object to the serialize and deserialize methods. However, in
this case I don't currently have that option since the file in
question resides on an external flash device, and the fstream
mechanism doesn't currently support that device.
Are you writing to the *RAW* USB drive? Otherwise, it has some kind of
filesystem that your OS will recognize, and you just open an fstream
with a name referring to a file on that drive, so you can just use fstream.
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