Re: [Boost-users] return type of boost::iostreams::stream<T>::read()

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] return type of boost::iostreams::stream<T>::read()
From: Eric MALENFANT (Eric.Malenfant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-14 09:47:29

Struebing, Axel, le-tex [axel.struebing_at_[hidden]]:
> Reading the documentation about boost::iostreams library I could not
> find the information which return type the boost::iostreams::stream's
> class is giving me calling read().

>From the documentation, a boost::iostreams::stream derives from an std::basic_[i|o]stream, depending on the model of its underlying Device. In your example, the device is a Source, so I guess that the stream derives from std::basic_istream, whose read(char*, streamsize) method returns a basic_istream, not a streamsize.

The library offers the "streamsize read(stream, char*, streamsize)" function template. Using it in your example yould give something like (not tested):

  #include <boost/iostreams/stream.hpp>
  #include <boost/iostreams/device/file.hpp>
  #include <boost/iostreams/operations.hpp>  

  int main(void){
    namespace bio = boost::iostreams;
    bio::stream<bio::file_source> istr(std::string("in.pdf"));
    char buffer[10];
    std::streamsize i = bio::read(istr,buffer,10);
    return 0;
  }

 
HTH,

Éric Malenfant
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