Stream support #57

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opened 2018-08-24 09:38:40 -05:00 by jpetso · 0 comments

jpetso commented

2018-08-24 09:38:40 -05:00

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At this time, cppcodec does not offer a good way of encoding or decoding a byte stream of unknown length. This is a significant shortcoming in the API and something usable should be added. The obvious choice here is support for the stream operators (<<, >>) that pipe from and to a cppcodec class. We'll likely want a new class because unlike the existing encode()/decode() functions, this one needs to track state as part of its member variables, i.e. the data source and possibly information about the current offset.

I'd like to make this a focus area for v0.3.

At this time, cppcodec does not offer a good way of encoding or decoding a byte stream of unknown length. This is a significant shortcoming in the API and something usable should be added. The obvious choice here is support for the stream operators (`<<`, `>>`) that pipe from and to a cppcodec class. We'll likely want a new class because unlike the existing encode()/decode() functions, this one needs to track state as part of its member variables, i.e. the data source and possibly information about the current offset. I'd like to make this a focus area for v0.3.

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