#107 base64 serialization with std::string

[Jan Engelhardt]

// input file to soapcpp2
struct xsd__base64Binary {
    unsigned char *__ptr;
    int __size;
};
struct req1 {
    int moonphase;
    struct xsd__base64Binary *input_id;
};
int request_blah(const struct req1 *x);

When making this call, the input_id gets sent over the line as a base64-encoded string of whatever is in __ptr. The magic for base64 encoding lies within the unsigned char pointer. Changing the input_id field to a std::string will transmit the field in plain instead (expectedly so). Is there a way to combine std::string and base64 encoding?

struct req1 {
    int moonphase;
    std::string input_id; // not base64 normally
};

[Robert van Engelen]

Just convert the string with raw data to base64 and then store it to serialize it with the req1 structure. Won't that work?

r.input_id = soap_s2base64(soap, rawdata, NULL, rawdatalen);