Packing struct in Boost Asio buffer

Question

I\'m looking for a way to send a packet made of a custom data structure through a socket with Boost Asio. At the moment I understand that you can send a string with the stan

Answer 1

You can just copy POD objects bitwise.

In fact, Asio accepts boost/std array, T[] or vector buffers as long as T is a POD struct.

• http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/boost_asio/overview/core/buffers.html
• http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/buffer.html for the various constructors for mutable/const buffer sequence wrappers.

Otherwise, you could use Boost Serialization to serialize your data.

Finally, there's some support for binaries (binary dwords (big-endian/little-endian), binary floats) in Boost Spirit.

Update Example:

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    struct { float a, b; } arr[10];

    auto mutable_buffer = boost::asio::buffer(arr);
}

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