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The following example demonstrates the (de-)serialization of dense and sparse vectors:
using blaze::columnVector;
using blaze::rowVector;
// Serialization of both vectors
{
blaze::StaticVector<double,5UL,rowVector> d;
blaze::CompressedVector<int,columnVector> s;
// ... Resizing and initialization
// Creating an archive that writes into a the file "vectors.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ofstream> archive( "vectors.blaze" );
// Serialization of both vectors into the same archive. Note that d lies before s!
archive << d << s;
}
// Reconstitution of both vectors
{
blaze::DynamicVector<double,rowVector> d1;
blaze::DynamicVector<int,rowVector> d2;
// Creating an archive that reads from the file "vectors.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ifstream> archive( "vectors.blaze" );
// Reconstituting the former d vector into d1. Note that it is possible to reconstitute
// the vector into a differrent kind of vector (StaticVector -> DynamicVector), but that
// the type of elements has to be the same.
archive >> d1;
// Reconstituting the former s vector into d2. Note that is is even possible to reconstitute
// a sparse vector as a dense vector (also the reverse is possible) and that a column vector
// can be reconstituted as row vector (and vice versa). Note however that also in this case
// the type of elements is the same!
archive >> d2
}
The (de-)serialization of vectors is not restricted to vectors of built-in data type, but can also be used for vectors with vector or matrix element type:
// Serialization
{
blaze::CompressedVector< blaze::DynamicVector< blaze::complex<double> > > vec;
// ... Resizing and initialization
// Creating an archive that writes into a the file "vector.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ofstream> archive( "vector.blaze" );
// Serialization of the vector into the archive
archive << vec;
}
// Deserialization
{
blaze::CompressedVector< blaze::DynamicVector< blaze::complex<double> > > vec;
// Creating an archive that reads from the file "vector.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ifstream> archive( "vector.blaze" );
// Reconstitution of the vector from the archive
archive >> vec;
}
As the examples demonstrates, the vector serialization offers an enormous flexibility. However, several actions result in errors:
- vectors cannot be reconstituted as matrices (and vice versa)
- the element type of the serialized and reconstituted vector must match, which means that on the source and destination platform the general type (signed/unsigned integral or floating point) and the size of the type must be exactly the same
- when reconstituting a
StaticVector
, its size must match the size of the serialized vector
In case an error is encountered during (de-)serialization, a std::runtime_exception
is thrown.
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