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Coding Standards
This is an older version of Boost and was released in 2024. The current version is 1.90.0.
A type T is Formattable if it can be passed as a format
argument to SQL formatting functions, like format_sql.
Formally, let T be any type,
and U the result of stripping
cv-qualifiers and references from T.
T satisfies Formattable if any of the following are
true:
U satisfies WritableField.
This includes scalar types and optionals.
formatter
has been specialized for U.
T is a formattable range,
or a reference to one. Formally, given a variable t
of type T (that might
be a reference), T is
a formattable range if:
std::begin(t)
and std::end(t)
return an iterator/sentinel pair that can be compared for (in)equality.
std::decay_t<decltype(*std::begin(t))>
is a WritableField
or has a specialized formatter. In other words, the range's element
type must be either an elemental type or have a custom formatted
defined, but must not be a range.
U does not satisfy
WritableField
(i.e. vector<unsigned char> is formatted as a blob, not
as a sequence).
U is formattable_ref.
For a reference table on built-in formattable types, see this section.