Oops, long time no post.
Boost has powerful Graph library named BGL(Boost Graph Library), and serialization libraries, however the library for serialization of boost::subgraph doesn't exist, so i implement simple library to do that.
boost_subgraph_serialize was commited on Github, so you can check out them with git.
% git clone git://github.com/rakuto/boost_subgraph_serialize.git
subgraph_serialize_test.cpp
Demo that serialize boost::subgraph.
/**
* Serialization of boost::subgraph
*
* Created by Rakuto Furutani <xri://rakuto/> (rakuto+nospam@gmail.com)
*
* output:
* original:
* 0 <--> 1 2
* 1 <--> 0 4
* 2 <--> 0
* 3 <-->
* 4 <--> 5 5 1
* 5 <--> 4 4
* children num: 1
*
* from file:
* 0 <--> 1 2
* 1 <--> 0 4
* 2 <--> 0
* 3 <-->
* 4 <--> 5 5 1
* 5 <--> 4 4
* children num: 1
*/
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/graph/subgraph.hpp>
#include <boost/graph/graph_utility.hpp>
// arhivers
#include <boost/archive/binary_iarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp>
#include "subgraph_serialize.h"

using namespace boost;
typedef property<vertex_name_t, char> VertexProperty;
typedef property<edge_index_t, uint32_t,
property<edge_weight_t, uint32_t> > EdgeProperty;
typedef subgraph<adjacency_list<listS, vecS, undirectedS, VertexProperty, EdgeProperty> > Graph;
static const char* DAT_FILE_NAME = "subgraph.dat";
int main()
{
enum {A, B, C, D, E, F, N};
const char* node_names = "ABCDEF";
// create root graph
Graph root(N);
property_map<Graph, vertex_name_t>::type vertex_names = get(vertex_name_t(), root);
for(uint32_t i = 0; i < N; ++i) vertex_names[i] = node_names[i];
add_edge(A, B, EdgeProperty(1), root);
add_edge(A, C, EdgeProperty(2), root);
add_edge(E, F, EdgeProperty(3), root);
// create sub graph
enum {B1, E1, F1}; // refering to vertices in sub_g1
Graph& sub_g1 = root.create_subgraph();
add_vertex(B, sub_g1);
add_vertex(E, sub_g1);
add_vertex(F, sub_g1);
add_edge(E1, F1, sub_g1);
add_edge(B1, E1, sub_g1);
std::cout << "original:" << std::endl;
print_graph(root);
std::cout << "children num: " << root.num_children() << std::endl;
// serialize and save graph
std::ofstream ofs(DAT_FILE_NAME, std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
if(!ofs.is_open()) {
std::cerr << "Can't open " << DAT_FILE_NAME << " file." << std::endl;
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs);
oa << root;
ofs.close();
// Try to restore saved graph
Graph g;
std::ifstream ifs(DAT_FILE_NAME, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
if(!ifs.is_open()) {
std::cerr << "Can't open " << DAT_FILE_NAME << " file." << std::endl;
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs);
ia >> g;
std::cout << "\nfrom file:" << std::endl;
print_graph(g);
std::cout << "children num: " << g.num_children() << std::endl;
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
subgraph_serialize.h
Implementation of serialazation of boost::subgraph.
/**
* Serialization of boost::subgraph
*
* Created by Rakuto Furutani <xri://rakuto/> (rakuto+nospam@gmail.com)
*/
#ifndef SUBGRAPH_SELIALIZE_H
#define SUBGRAPH_SELIALIZE_H
#include <boost/graph/adj_list_serialize.hpp>
#include <boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp>
#include <boost/graph/subgraph.hpp>
namespace boost {
namespace serialization {
template<class Archive, class Graph>
inline void save(Archive& ar,
const subgraph<Graph> graph,
const unsigned int /* file_version*/)
{
typedef typename subgraph<Graph>::vertex_descriptor Vertex;
typedef typename subgraph<Graph>::const_children_iterator ChildrenIter;
// serialize global verticies and edges
size_t num_children = graph.num_children();
bool root = graph.is_root();
ar << BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(root);
ar << BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(num_children);
ar << BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(graph.m_graph);
ChildrenIter ci, ci_end;
tie(ci, ci_end) = graph.children();
for(; ci != ci_end; ++ci) {
ar << *ci;
}
}
template<class Archive, class Graph>
inline void load(
Archive& ar,
subgraph<Graph>& graph,
const unsigned int /* file_version */)
{
typedef typename subgraph<Graph>::vertex_descriptor Vertex;
typedef typename Graph::vertex_iterator VertexIter;
Graph g;
bool root;
size_t num_children;
ar >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(root);
ar >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(num_children);
ar >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(g);
if(root) {
graph.m_graph = g;
} else {
VertexIter vi, vi_end;
tie(vi, vi_end) = vertices(g);
graph.create_subgraph(vi, vi_end);
}
for(size_t i = 0; i < num_children; ++i) {
ar >> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(graph);
}
}
template<class Archive, class Graph>
inline void serialize(
Archive& ar,
boost::subgraph<Graph>& graph,
const unsigned int file_version)
{
boost::serialization::split_free(ar, graph, file_version);
}
} // namespace serialization
} // namespace boost
#endif
Theses codes aren't tested enough, if you find bugs please email me(rakuto+nospam@gmail.com).
