Saving/Loading of the world

[LauriM]

Saving/Loading of the world state.

[abramsba]

The first thing that pops up in my head is serialization however I don't think C++ has a standard way of doing this. boost:: has objects for handling this automatically but should we include more libraries in the project or keep it simple?

I guess the obvious questions:

• Should the information be saved as binary data or plain text ?
• Should we import boost or create our own interface for serialization which can be implemented in the BaseActors and extended in each object definition to allow it to be automatically saved?

[LauriM]

At one point I had googles protobuffs in this project, but that has lot of manual work to get objects to disk and back. (you can see from gits history)

I dont really care how its done, but priority is that its easy to maintain and we can easily add stuff to it.

Writing objects direclty to file kinda works, but pointers are going to be messed up.

Boost as dependency is something that I would not mind, its good general library that almost everybody has anyway.

[LauriM]

Protobuffs are not good solution. But now that we have Boost included anyway, that should be tested.