no suitable user-defined conversion from utility::string_t to std::string

Question

I am using the casablanca C++ Rest library to make HTTP requests.

The problem is that this gives a utility::string_t string as output and I can\'t quite find any way

Answer 1

Depending on what platform you are compiling for, the utility::string_t type will be typedef'd to either std::wstring (on Windows) or std::string (on Linux/OSX).

To get a classic utf-8 std::string regardless of platform, take a look at utility::conversions::to_utf8string.

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