[Adobe-source-devel] Serialization -

[Sean P. <sp...@ad...>]

I'm in the middle of a fairly big clean-up and documentation effort  
on ASL (that's what is holding up the release but we will get it out  
this coming Thursday).

We've had limited Boost Serialization support for the ASL data types  
that get used for messaging (any_regular_t, name_t, dictionary_t...)  
- but it isn't currently being used by ASL directly and is a pain to  
maintain and generates a lot of code bloat. Unless there is an  
objection my plan is the following:

Pull boost serialization from ASL -
Consolidate the ADOBE_STD_SERIALIZATION (which uses ostreams) to just  
the normal messaging types - code will go into any_regular.cpp.

Then for 1.0.29 I want to clean up the standard serialization with a  
proper formatter for CEL and likely istream support through the CEL  
parser. I'll pull the remains of the XML and PDF serializers (which  
have never been completed or well supported). This will give us  
minimal but supportable serialization support.

Unless I hear a strong objection in the next couple of days - this  
will be the plan.

Thanks,
Sean