Copy a streambuf's contents to a string

Question

Apparently boost::asio::async_read doesn\'t like strings, as the only overload of boost::asio::buffer allows me to create const_buffer

Answer 1

A simpler answer would be to convert it in std::string and manipulate it some what like this

 std::string buffer_to_string(const boost::asio::streambuf &buffer)
 {
  using boost::asio::buffers_begin;
  auto bufs = buffer.data();
  std::string result(buffers_begin(bufs), buffers_begin(bufs) + buffer.size());
 return result;
}

Giving a very concise code for the task.