I guess the request is somewhat confusing -- are you asking about boost.iostreams, boost.serialization, something else? Note, if you want to do binary i/o in C++ you can always use the streambuf interfaces directly -- which would be similar to the vector approach if I'm understanding... http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_streambuf Jeff On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:

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I have my own BinaryInputStream and BinaryOutputStream classes that simply take a reference to some container that meets the requirements of random access and contiguous internal memory. It doesn't own this container, but rather serves as an adapter to the container to allow stream operators to be used for streaming out data. For example, you can stream a `std::uint32_t` to the binary stream, and it will insert 4 elements into an internal byte vector which is just `std::vectorstd::uint8_t`.

I did not implement these in terms of IO streams, because those seemed a bit overkill and make a lot of assumptions on the data being text-only. Also I can't stream binary data into vectors, lists, and other containers because the data simply can't be parsed. Each stream out of a binary vector must be done so with a finite count of bytes.

Would it make sense to implement these objects in terms of the IOstream facilities provided by boost? I know these were designed to make defining stream classes easier, but honestly I don't have a lot of experience with them.

Any feedback on this? Thanks in advance. I can provide some example code if needed.

Could I get any advice on this? If I was too vague, please let me know. _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users