Re: [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-15 14:10:47

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 3:37 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Could you describe why you need to construct/assign/append to paths from
> arbitrary containers and why you cannot use string types or iterators?

Yeah, and from your description it sounds like maybe it is just a user
error on my part or a bug. The container in question is
boost::urls::pct_encoded_view:

<https://github.com/CPPAlliance/url/blob/cba301383791f67c31b3ccd52a401849f7cf8940/include/boost/url/pct_encoded_view.hpp#L75>

This used to work:

    pct_encoded_view v;
    boost::filesystem::path p;

    p.append( v );

What should happen here is that a path segment will be appended to p
formed by applying percent-decoding to the string referenced by 'v'
(the percent-decoding happens in the iterator).

Thanks