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cereal compiles and runs, but does not write to file

The following code does not write to file. 

#include <cereal/types/vector.hpp>
#include <cereal/archives/xml.hpp>
{
    vector<int> v = { 1,2,3 };
    stringstream s;
    s << "cereal_test.xml";
    cereal::XMLOutputArchive  oarchive(s);
    oarchive(v); 
}

It compiles and runs apparently correctly.

If we cout << s << endl; out of scope we see in the console:

cereal_test.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cereal>
        <value0 size="dynamic">
                <value0>1</value0>
                <value1>2</value1>
                <value2>3</value2>
        </value0>
</cereal>

What's missing?

Solution

  • A mistaken copy-paste from cereal's tuturial:

    It should be ofstream instead of stringstream

    {
    vector<int> v = { 1,2,3 };

    std::ofstream outFile("cereal_test.xml");
    {
        cereal::XMLOutputArchive  oarchive(outFile);
        oarchive(v);
    }
}