This project is a part of Staticlibs.

This project implements stream-like operations on the arbitrary Source and Sink template implementations.

This library is similar in nature with Boost.Iostreams library, but much less powerful and much less complex.

Library follows C++ Core Guidelines using span instead of "buffer pointer + length" pair.

This library is header-only and depends on staticlib_config and staticlib_support.

Link to the API documentation.

This library is built around the notions of the Source (input stream) and the Sink (output stream) template concepts.

Source concept:

class Source {
    // move constructor and assignment operator
    Source(Source&& other);
    Source& operator=(Source&& other);

    // read method
    std::streamsize read(sl::io::span<char> span);
};

Sink concept:

class Sink {
    // move constructor and assignment operator
    Sink(Sink&& other);
    Sink& operator=(Sink&& other);

    // write method
    std::streamsize write(sl::io::span<const char> span);

    // flush method
    std::streamsize flush();
};

Library implements a set of generic operations (read_all, copy) on arbitrary sources and sinks and a number of template wrappers like buffered and counting sources and sinks.

See usage examples in tests.

This project is released under the Apache License 2.0.

2018-10-17

• version 1.2.11
• Changed limited source behaviour. sl::io::limited_source limits the number of bytes
• read through it and returns EOF on threshold exceed

2018-06-20

• version 1.2.10
• add alias for sl::io::string_to_hex to work around a clash with a macro in newer OpenSSL

2018-06-19

• version 1.2.9
• multi_source added

2018-06-16

• version 1.2.8
• memory_sink added

2018-06-12

• version 1.2.7
• support string literals in span

2018-06-04

• version 1.2.6
• hex rework

2018-03-20

• version 1.2.5
• more hex utils

2018-02-22

• version 1.2.3
• allow empty state for span

2017-12-22

• version 1.2.2
• vs2017 support

2017-04-08

• version 1.2.1
• span moved into this project

2017-02-04

• version 1.2.0
• use GSL-like span

2016-01-16

• version 1.1.5
• minor CMake changes

2015-12-13

• version 1.1.4
• reference_* source and sink added

2015-11-24

• version 1.1.3
• endian utils removed
• test cleanup
• cmake scripts cleanup

2015-11-14

• version 1.1.2
• use std::char_traits<char>::eof() instead of configurable template arg

2015-11-09

• version 1.1.1
• string_source fix

2015-11-06

• version 1.1.0
• array_source and string source and sink added

2015-11-01

• version 1.0.0