Re: [boost] binary_iostreams library

From: Jerry Schwarz (jerry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-31 02:11:44

I just sent email about the use of streambuf in binary_stream.  If  
the changes I suggest there were made then you could you stringbuf  
(or some similar streambuf) to satisfy your needs.

On May 30, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Lukas Fittl wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Ares Lagae wrote:
>> I have developed a small library for binary I/O, called  
>> binary_iostreams,
>> and I am using it in several of my own projects. I was wondering  
>> if there
>> is interest for such a binary_iostreams library?
>>
>> The binary_iostreams is a small library, very similar to the  
>> iostreams
>> library. Compared to iostreams, the unformatted I/O operators  
>> remain, and
>> the formatted I/O operators now do binary I/O. This makes the
>> binary_iostreams library easy to use for anyone acquainted with the
>> iostreams library. The binary_iostreams library allows to set the
>> endianness of the output stream. Together with <cstdint>, this  
>> allows for
>> portable binary I/O, although binary_iostreams does not claim to  
>> be a full
>> blown serialization library.
>
> Hi Ares,
>
> I tried to use your library to build the message parsing/writing  
> part of a
> Server, and failed, because I didn't find an easy way to simply  
> write the
> resulting binary data into a std::vector<char> for sending it to a  
> socket
> later on. What is the best way to solve that problem?
>
> Btw.: Your library fails to build on a gcc 4.3 pre-release because
> binary_istream.cpp doesn't include the limits header.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Lukas
>
> -- 
> Lukas Fittl <lfittl_at_[hidden]>
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