Re: [asio-users] endpoint and address string conversions

[Christopher K. <ch...@ko...>]

Hi Arvid,

--- Arvid Norberg <c9...@cs...> wrote:

> I was also thinking that maybe the address class should have an  
> overload of the operator<<(std::ostream&, asio::address). This would 
> make the type play nicely with boost::lexical_cast<std::string>() as 
> well as being more easily streamed out.
> 
> Maybe the endpoint types should have stream operators too, that would
> be handy, especially when debugging.

Good ideas. I'll put these changes in 0.3.4.
 
> To avoid having to include <iostream>, maybe the stream operators  
> could be put in a separate header file (like boost.date_time does).

I could probably do the same thing as I have done for asio::error,
where the << operator is a template:

  template <Ostream>
  Ostream& operator<<(Ostream& os, const address& a)
  {
    ...
  }

This will remove any need to include iostream.

Cheers,
Chris