Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Binary parsers

[Rodrigo M. <rod...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rodrigo Madera <rod...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Basically I see three std::string elements in the message which already
> make
> > it strange.
>
> Why is this strange?
>

> > Is there a reason for them that I don't realize?
>
> std::string is the easiest container to use that allows both string
> semantics and guarantee of contiguous storage (at least as far as I
> understand). Any other container would be too unwieldy to use
> especially for algorithms that deal with strings of characters.
>
> BTW, strings can contain binary data just fine (as long as you store
> the data (7-bit chars) as is).
>

So are you saying that storing a binary block of data (say an image) into a
string is okay?
Boost has a buffer class made for this. If you want integration with boost
you need to use boost.

It makes no sense at all to put strings into every message.

Regards,
Rodrigo