/* Boost.MultiIndex example of serialization of a MRU list. * * Copyright 2003-2008 Joaquin M Lopez Munoz. * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. * (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at * http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) * * See http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_index for library home page. */ #if !defined(NDEBUG) #define BOOST_MULTI_INDEX_ENABLE_INVARIANT_CHECKING #define BOOST_MULTI_INDEX_ENABLE_SAFE_MODE #endif #include /* keep it first to prevent nasty warns in MSVC */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using namespace boost::multi_index; /* An MRU (most recently used) list keeps record of the last n * inserted items, listing first the newer ones. Care has to be * taken when a duplicate item is inserted: instead of letting it * appear twice, the MRU list relocates it to the first position. */ template class mru_list { typedef multi_index_container< Item, indexed_by< sequenced<>, hashed_unique > > > item_list; public: typedef Item item_type; typedef typename item_list::iterator iterator; mru_list(std::size_t max_num_items_):max_num_items(max_num_items_){} void insert(const item_type& item) { std::pair p=il.push_front(item); if(!p.second){ /* duplicate item */ il.relocate(il.begin(),p.first); /* put in front */ } else if(il.size()>max_num_items){ /* keep the length <= max_num_items */ il.pop_back(); } } iterator begin(){return il.begin();} iterator end(){return il.end();} /* Utilities to save and load the MRU list, internally * based on Boost.Serialization. */ void save_to_file(const char* file_name)const { std::ofstream ofs(file_name); boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(ofs); oa<>boost::serialization::make_nvp("mru",*this); } } private: item_list il; std::size_t max_num_items; /* serialization support */ friend class boost::serialization::access; template void serialize(Archive& ar,const unsigned int) { ar&BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(il); ar&BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(max_num_items); } }; int main() { const char* mru_store="mru_store"; /* Construct a MRU limited to 10 items and retrieve its * previous contents. */ mru_list mru(10); mru.load_from_file(mru_store); /* main loop */ for(;;){ std::cout<<"enter a term: "; std::string line; std::getline(std::cin,line); if(line.empty())break; std::string term; std::istringstream iss(line); iss>>term; if(term.empty())break; mru.insert(term); std::cout<<"most recently entered terms:"<(std::cout,"\n")); } /* persist the MRU list */ mru.save_to_file(mru_store); return 0; }