Serialize and send a data structure using Boost?

Question

I have a data structure that looks like this:

typedef struct
{
  unsigned short m_short1;
  unsigned short m_short2;
  unsigned char m_character;
} MyDataType;
         


        

Answer 1

There is a good serialization example in the asio documentation: server.cpp, stock.hpp, connection.hpp.

Here's a snippet:

std::ostringstream archive_stream;
boost::archive::text_oarchive archive(archive_stream);
archive << your_struct;
outbound_data_ = archive_stream.str();
boost::asio::async_write(socket_, 
    boost::asio::buffer(outbound_data_), handler);