The concept type traits are renamed for consistency,
and consolidated into a single header file <beast/core/type_traits.hpp>
A new section, Core Concepts, is added to the documentation describing all
of the core utility classes and functions. This also includes a complete
explanation and sample program describing how to write asynchronous initiation
functions and their associated composed operations.
A new function, buffers(), returns an implementation defined object
which wraps a ConstBufferSequence and supports formatting to a
std::ostream.
The function to_string is removed, as the new implementation allows
conversion to string using boost::lexical_cast on the return value
of the call to buffers(). Streaming to an output stream is more
efficient: no dynamic allocations are performed.
Example:
streambuf sb;
std::cout << buffers(sb.data()) << std::endl;
This eliminates beast::write output for dynamic buffers and replaces
it with the function ostream() that wraps a caller provided dynamic
buffer and returns the result as a std::ostream derived object.
Callers may now produce formatted output into any object meeting the
requirements of DynamicBuffer using operator<< and the standard stream
modifiers such as std::endl.
This new technique is more efficient, as implementations of operator<<
can now write directly into the output using std::ostream::write and
std::ostream::put.
Example of use:
beast::streambuf sb;
beast::ostream(sb) << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
Objects of this type meet the requirements of DynamicBuffer
and offer an additional invariant: buffer sequences returned
by data() and prepare() are always of length one.
Conform to the Networking TS by renaming the Streambuf concept
to DynamicBuffer in all places. Values of types meeting the
requirements of DynamicBuffer are renamed to dynabuf.
See:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4478.html#requirements.dynamic_buffers
* Headers renamed
* Formal parameter names renamed
* Template argument types renamed
* Documentation updated
Vinnie Falco