Serializing enumerated values

An enumeratation is a distinct type, but it can be serialized by specializing x::serialization::serialize_integer_type:


enum errmsg_t {

// ...

};

namespace x:: serialization {
        template<> class serialize_integer_type<errmsg_t> {
        public:

            typedef char int_t;
        };
};

After declaring the above specialization, instances of errmsg_t can be serialized and deserialized normally. This example uses char values for serializing this enumeration type. Any natural integer type may be declared for int_t. The natural integer type must, of course, be wide enough to represent all values of the enumerated type.

LIBCXX_SERIALIZE_ENUMERATION(errmsg_t, char);

This macro expands to the above definition, and is the preferred way to declare a serializable enumeration.