Re: Thoughts on Socket (was: New file uploaded to boost)

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-25 19:54:29

on 12/25/00 9:14 AM, etoffi_at_[hidden] at etoffi_at_[hidden] wrote:

> Daryle Walker writes:
> 
> ... snipped
> 
>> namespace boost
>> {
>> class tcpipbuf
>>     : public std::streambuf
>>     , noncopyable
>> {
> 
> wouldnt this be a little better:
> 
>> namespace boost
>> {
> template <typename extra_data>
>> class tcpipbuf
>>     : public std::streambuf
>>     , noncopyable
>> {
> 
> ... snipped
> 
>> private:
>> // Put general connection helper methods here.
>> 
>> // What it really points to is platform-specific.
>> extra_data  tcpip_data_;
>> };
>> }

A major point of my class was to not use templates at all, so the
implementation can be offloaded to a source file.  This lets the writer hide
the platform-specific stuff there.  This means that the user-visible
interface can't know anything about the actual (platform-dependent) TCP/IP
structures.  I represented this by hiding them with a "void*".

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Daryle Walker
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