Print a warning rather than failing if we're unserializing and there's an

object in the config that was not in the checkpointed config.
This code compiles, but I haven't tested it... I'm committing it so Ron
can have it.  Should not effect anything that currently works.

base/inifile.cc:
base/inifile.hh:
    Add sectionExists() method so you can query whether a section exists
    without knowing any of the entry names that would be in it.
sim/serialize.cc:
sim/serialize.hh:
    Add Checkpoint::sectionExists() (pass through to IniFile).

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : 905db122afdfe55946ab8493ccac0b1e715bc7c6

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/base/inifile.hh b/base/inifile.hh
index f67fdc7be..f7229f2f2 100644
--- a/base/inifile.hh
+++ b/base/inifile.hh
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ class IniFile
     bool findAppend(const std::string &section, const std::string &entry,
                     std::string &value) const;
 
+    /// Determine whether the named section exists in the .ini file.
+    /// Note that the 'Section' class is (intentionally) not public,
+    /// so all clients can do is get a bool that says whether there
+    /// are any values in that section or not.
+    /// @return True if the section exists.
+    bool sectionExists(const std::string &section) const;
+
     /// Print unreferenced entries in object.  Iteratively calls
     /// printUnreferend() on all the constituent sections.
     bool printUnreferenced();