File corruption in de-serialization, how to prevent a crash?

Question

I'am using boost graph library to work with graphs. I use boost::serialization to write my graph to a file.

For testing purpose, I modifed the integrity of the file. Now my program just crashed all the time. I was wondering is there any way to prevent the crash (boost::serialization doesn't throw exceptions).

And more generally for any type of file with no exception thrown in parsing, where all is supposed to be correct, is there a way too ?

Maybe the only solution is to write custom serialization/de-serialization functions with exception handling ?

Thank you !

Edit: There is a boost::archive::archive_exception when the all data is corrupted or the file is missing. But if only certain part of the file are changed, it crashes ...

Edit2: I should caught the input_stream_error exception, but I don't.

Answer 1

A boost::archive_exception is also thrown in other situations than corruption of the whole data or missing file. See Archive Exceptions for details.