Pickling

Pickling

Pickling (also known as serialization) is saving the state of the simulation for later resumption (possibly under different controls)

Pickling from moby-driver

• -w=x option pickles the simulation every x iterations
• Simulation is saved in the format driver.out-00000000-0.000000.xml

Pickling from your code

• Call XMLWriter::serialize_to_xml("filename", objects) where objects is a list of objects of type Base to serialize. In general, the only object you need to serialize is a pointer to the simulation (all objects it refers to are automatically serialized as well).

boost::shared_ptr<Moby::EventDrivenSimulator> sim(new Moby::EventDrivenSimulator);
//...set up simulation...

Moby::XMLWriter::serialize_to_xml("file", sim);  //call at each stage you wish to serialize

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