Re: [boost] [Ann] socketstream library 0.7

From: Simon Richter (Simon.Richter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-09 19:26:17

Hi,

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> See ? As soon as you don't care for formatting you do want access to
> the underlaying streambuf object, which, in this case, would be a much
> more suitable place to put the extra API to manipulate socket-specific
> options.

Hrm, that would basically mean making the "impl" API in my model a
public API for application programmers as well as the socket_streambuf.
The stream classes need to pass the socket-specific API calls down to
the actual implementation anyway, so there is no big harm being done here.

>> iostreams' read()/write() should be enough for stream-based I/O, and for
>> datagrams I'd propose going through another step anyway (i.e. have a
>> separate stream class that does not derive from the standard iostreams
>> but rather allows inserting and extracting packets only.

> Why use iostream's read if you can do that on the streambuf object
> directly.

Easier interface.

> And, why use the concept of a 'stream' at all when dealing with datagrams ?
> That doesn't sound like a good fit to me.

It it a stream of packets, not an iostream. There is no real need to
call it a "stream" as well, but I think it should provide operator<< and
operator>> for packets.

   Simon