Re: ICE and TIPC

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Kay-Uwe Kasemir wrote:
> Strings are the very data type where I think the end user has to see
> a contiguous string. In C/C++, the (const char *) is the only common 
> denominator
> between string classes, all of which of course based on divine revelation
> but incompatible except for c_str()/CStr()/...

As long as the string API acts like it stores a contiguous string, and 
provides a method that can copy the string data out into a contiguous 
external buffer (and add the trailing '\0' as well that the C functions 
need), you shouldn't notice the difference.

Remember my point about the CA Get request from last night - your 
callback routine is presented with a property catalog that contains the 
data you requested from the server.  You are responsible for browsing or 
traversing that catalog and extracting the data from it into your own 
storage.  If a property you're given is a string, you have to copy it to 
your own buffer anyway.  Why do you care how the
	value.getCstr(mybuffer, maxlen)
method (or whatever we call it) works internally to copy that data into 
your buffer?

- Andrew
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