Zachary Turner wrote:
I've been reading over the documentation for Boost.Asio and as far as I can tell the documentation makes no mention whatsoever about using Asio for anything other than sockets programming.
Boost.Asio supports serial ports as well.
implemented a simple file transfer client (I say client because the server will not be in C++) that reads files off of the disk and sends them to the server. I'd like to do it asynchronously. What would be the basic steps needed to do this with Boost.Asio, if it is indeed even possible?
There are examples of client / server applications, and although based on sockets, with appropriate modifications could run over, say, serial ports.
As a final "nice-to-have", I'd like to be able to plug my own types of "actions" into the model, things that aren't really I/O but that I still want to execute asynchronously that would sit in between a completed disk read and the initiation of writing that same data to the socket.
I use Boost.Asio not only for sockets, serial ports, and files, but also to implement asynchronous message passing between threads. This involves using io_service.post() to post functor objects to the thread. I usually use the "active object" kind of idiom in this case. Anyway, my point is that I believe Boost.Asio can be used for the kinds of things that you describe. Kevin