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Start an asynchronous operation to read data into a streambuf until it contains a specified delimiter.
template< typename AsyncReadStream, typename Allocator, typename ReadToken = default_completion_token_t< typename AsyncReadStream::executor_type>> DEDUCED async_read_until( AsyncReadStream & s, boost::asio::basic_streambuf< Allocator > & b, string_view delim, ReadToken && token = default_completion_token_t< typename AsyncReadStream::executor_type >());
This function is used to asynchronously read data into the specified streambuf until the streambuf's get area contains the specified delimiter. It is an initiating function for an asynchronous operation, and always returns immediately. The asynchronous operation will continue until one of the following conditions is true:
This operation is implemented in terms of zero or more calls to the stream's async_read_some function, and is known as a composed operation. If the streambuf's get area already contains the delimiter, this asynchronous operation completes immediately. The program must ensure that the stream performs no other read operations (such as async_read, async_read_until, the stream's async_read_some function, or any other composed operations that perform reads) until this operation completes.
The stream from which the data is to be read. The type must support the AsyncReadStream concept.
A streambuf object into which the data will be read. Ownership of the streambuf is retained by the caller, which must guarantee that it remains valid until the completion handler is called.
The delimiter string.
The completion
token that will be used to produce a completion handler, which
will be called when the read completes. Potential completion tokens
include use_future
, use_awaitable
, yield_context
, or a function
object with the correct completion signature. The function signature
of the completion handler must be:
void handler( // Result of operation. const boost::system::error_code& error, // The number of bytes in the streambuf's get // area up to and including the delimiter. // 0 if an error occurred. std::size_t bytes_transferred );
Regardless of whether the asynchronous operation completes immediately
or not, the completion handler will not be invoked from within this
function. On immediate completion, invocation of the handler will
be performed in a manner equivalent to using async_immediate
.
void(boost::system::error_code, std::size_t)
After a successful async_read_until operation, the streambuf may contain additional data beyond the delimiter. An application will typically leave that data in the streambuf for a subsequent async_read_until operation to examine.
To asynchronously read data into a streambuf until a newline is encountered:
boost::asio::streambuf b; ... void handler(const boost::system::error_code& e, std::size_t size) { if (!e) { std::istream is(&b); std::string line; std::getline(is, line); ... } } ... boost::asio::async_read_until(s, b, "\r\n", handler);
After the async_read_until
operation completes successfully, the buffer b
contains the delimiter:
{ 'a', 'b', ..., 'c', '\r', '\n', 'd', 'e', ... }
The call to std::getline
then extracts the data up to
and including the newline (which is discarded), so that the string line
contains:
{ 'a', 'b', ..., 'c', '\r' }
The remaining data is left in the buffer b
as follows:
{ 'd', 'e', ... }
This data may be the start of a new line, to be extracted by a subsequent
async_read_until
operation.
This asynchronous operation supports cancellation for the following cancellation_type
values:
cancellation_type::terminal
cancellation_type::partial
if they are also supported by the AsyncReadStream
type's async_read_some
operation.