Storing data structure

[TDB]

Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

[santosh]

TDB wrote:

Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

The Standard library functions fread/fwrite should be sufficient
primitives for this purpose.

[Richard Heathfield]

santosh said:

TDB wrote:

>Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

The Standard library functions fread/fwrite should be sufficient
primitives for this purpose.

You're right, but I don't think he was asking for primitives. He was asking
for a library which "understands" the serialisation of trees and graphs in
a way that primitives don't. You can't just fwrite(root, sizeof *root, 1,
fp) and expect the whole tree to be saved.

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[jacob navia]

TDB wrote:

Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

You will have to do that yourself, i.e. you will have to transform
the embedded pointers into pointers to other file structures.

In a very general form, you should be able to translate pointers into
indexes into a node array. When you read back the node array you
transform again those indexes into real pointers.

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[Keith Thompson]

santosh <sa*********@gmail.comwrites:

TDB wrote:

>I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

The Standard library functions fread/fwrite should be sufficient
primitives for this purpose.

Certainly, but I think that misses the OP's point. You have to
flatten the data structure somehow, replacing any pointers with
something more "static" (not in the C keyword sense), before you can
fwrite anything.

I don't know of any libraries to do this, but they probably exist.

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[Willem]

TDB wrote:
) Hello,
)
) I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
) like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
) ( simply serialization of a data structure ) .
)
) Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

A library can only be expected to save a data structure in a file
if it knows all the details of that data structure, and this is usually
only the case if that library also provides those structures.
So, IMO your best bet would be to look for tree- and graph-libraries.
SaSW, Willem
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[Malcolm McLean]

"TDB" <vn*****@gmail.comwrote in message news

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

Yes and no.
One cannot store pointers in a file. Whilst there are general-purpose
libraries that purport to be able to serialise structures, using a
programmer-specified format string, these are so difficult to use that I
think it is red herring to recommend them.
However storing a tree is not too difficult. Simply write a bracket,
recursively write the subtree, and then write a closing bracket.

Loading is more tricky.
If you look for the Newick tree loader on my website you might find what you
are looking for. However it will only load trees, not graphs.

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[santosh]

TDB wrote:

Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

One link I found through Google is:

<http://tpl.sourceforge.net/>

HTH

[Friedrich Dominicus]

TDB <vn*****@gmail.comwrites:

Hello,

I'm creating an application using C which requires the data structures
like trees and graphs to be stored in files and retrieved later
( simply serialization of a data structure ) .

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

As others have pointed out without some work on your side this won't
work. Howerver you may check the berkeley DB stuff which offers quite
a bunch for "persitence in C"

http://www.oracle.com/database/berke.../db/index.html

Regards
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[CBFalconer]

Keith Thompson wrote:

santosh <sa*********@gmail.comwrites:

>TDB wrote:

>>I'm creating an application using C which requires the data
structures like trees and graphs to be stored in files and
retrieved later (simply serialization of a data structure).

Is there any libraries available in C for this purpose ?

The Standard library functions fread/fwrite should be
sufficient primitives for this purpose.

Certainly, but I think that misses the OP's point. You have to
flatten the data structure somehow, replacing any pointers with
something more "static" (not in the C keyword sense), before you
can fwrite anything.

I don't know of any libraries to do this, but they probably
exist.

Highly doubtful. Any such library would have to understand the
entire organization of the trees and graphs.

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