From 41e4211748e8e9d06f7da249ccef4078f1551ed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shane Grant <wgrant@usc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:22:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added string serialization

---
 cereal.hpp | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 test.cpp   | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cereal.hpp b/cereal.hpp
index 8aff621c..f1d3d3c8 100644
--- a/cereal.hpp
+++ b/cereal.hpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <type_traits>
 #include "traits.hpp"
+#include <string>
 
 namespace cereal
 {
@@ -131,4 +132,22 @@ namespace cereal
     std::cout << "Serializing NVP: " << t.name << " " << t.value << std::endl;
     ar & t.value;
   }
+
+  //! Serialization for basic_string types to binary
+  template<class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc>
+  void save(BinaryOutputArchive & ar, std::basic_string<CharT, Traits, Alloc> const & str)
+  {
+    // Save number of chars + the data
+    ar & str.size();
+    ar.save_binary(str.data(), str.size() * sizeof(CharT));
+
+    std::cout << "Saving string: " << str << std::endl;
+  }
+
+  //! Serialization for basic_string types to binary
+  template<class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc>
+  void load(BinaryOutputArchive & ar, std::basic_string<CharT, Traits, Alloc> & str)
+  {
+    std::cout << "Loading string: " << str << std::endl;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test.cpp b/test.cpp
index 5cd4699f..2855ee98 100644
--- a/test.cpp
+++ b/test.cpp
@@ -69,13 +69,14 @@ namespace test4
 // ######################################################################
 int main()
 {
-  std::ostringstream os;
+  //std::ostringstream os;
+  std::ofstream os("out.txt");
   cereal::BinaryOutputArchive archive(os);
 
-  Test1 t1;
-  Test2 t2;
-  Test3 t3;
-  test4::Test4 t4;
+  Test1 t1 = {1};
+  Test2 t2 = {2};
+  Test3 t3 = {3};
+  test4::Test4 t4 = {4};
 
   archive & t1;
   archive & t2;
@@ -84,14 +85,19 @@ int main()
 
   int x = 5;
   auto nvp = cereal::make_nvp("hello!", x);
-  archive & CEREAL_NVP(x);
-
-  std::cout << std::is_base_of<cereal::detail::NameValuePairCore, decltype(nvp)>::value << std::endl;
-  std::cout << cereal::traits::has_non_member_serialize<decltype(nvp), cereal::BinaryOutputArchive>() << std::endl;
-  std::cout << cereal::traits::is_serializable<decltype(nvp), cereal::BinaryOutputArchive>() << std::endl;
 
   archive & nvp;
-  archive & cereal::make_nvp("another", x);
+
+  x = 6;
+  archive & CEREAL_NVP(x);
+
+  std::string bla = "asdf";
+
+  //std::cout << cereal::traits::has_non_member_save<std::string, cereal::BinaryOutputArchive>() << std::endl;
+  //std::cout << cereal::traits::has_non_member_load<std::string, cereal::BinaryOutputArchive>() << std::endl;
+  //std::cout << cereal::traits::is_serializable<std::string, cereal::BinaryOutputArchive>() << std::endl;
+
+  archive & bla;
 
   return 0;
 }