On 27/01/2011 11:53, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
Hi,
While working on the Boost profile for ODB C++ ORM[1], I was looking for a Boost type to map the database BLOB type to. I hoped to find something that would encapsulate the memory management and provide basic operations like copy (memcpy), append, set all bytes in a buffer to a specific value (memset), etc. Something that I could use like this:
class packet { address to_; boost::buffer payload_;
public: packet (const address& to, const void* data, std::size_t size) to_ (to), data_ (data, size) { }
const boost::buffer& payload () const { return payload_; } };
class socket { public: void send (const packet& p) { ... s_.send (p.payload ().data (), p.payload ().size ()) } };
How is that any different from std::vector<char>?