Re: [boost] Re: sockets Interface for address class

From: Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-02-27 14:04:59

Author:  dmoore (dmoore_at_[hidden]) at unix,mime
Date:    27/02/02 18:55

     
>If you need it to interoperate with the "C" sockets API, you need 
>something along the lines of
>
>operator const sockaddr *() const;
>-or-
>operator const protocol_address_representation *() const;
>
>-and-
>size_t length() const;

I did not plan on being able to use it with the C api nand I can not ( at the 
moment ) see any good reason to allow that. If I did provide that sort of 
functionality it would definately *not* be via implict conversion operators.
     
     
>You *may* also want to provide mutator and accessor access to the 
>address family member of the structure, although if I recall from 
>your earlier posts, that would be a template parameter to the class 
>in your design, right?

Right. address family is part of the type.

/ikh

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