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Class `std.outbuffer.OutBuffer`

OutBuffer provides a way to build up an array of bytes out of raw data. It is useful for things like preparing an array of bytes to write out to a file. OutBuffer's byte order is the format native to the computer. To control the byte order (endianness), use a class derived from OutBuffer. OutBuffer's internal buffer is allocated with the GC. Pointers stored into the buffer are scanned by the GC, but you have to ensure proper alignment, e.g. by using alignSize((void*).sizeof).


						
				class OutBuffer
				;

Methods

Name	Description
`align2` ()	Optimize common special case alignSize(2)
`align4` ()	Optimize common special case alignSize(4)
`alignSize` (alignsize)	0-fill to align on power of 2 boundary.
`clear` ()	Clear the data in the buffer
`fill0` (nbytes)	Append nbytes of 0 to the internal buffer.
`printf` (format)	Append output of C's printf() to internal buffer.
`reserve` (nbytes)	Preallocate nbytes more to the size of the internal buffer.
`spread` (index, nbytes)	At offset index into buffer, create nbytes of space by shifting upwards all data past index.
`toBytes` ()	Convert to array of bytes.
`toString` ()	Convert internal buffer to array of chars.
`vprintf` (format, args)	Append output of C's vprintf() to internal buffer.
`write` (bytes)	Append data to the internal buffer.
`writef` (fmt, args)	Formats and writes its arguments in text format to the OutBuffer.
`writefln` (fmt, args)	Formats and writes its arguments in text format to the OutBuffer, followed by a newline.
`factory` (classname)	Create instance of class specified by the fully qualified name classname. The class must either have no constructors or have a default constructor.
`opCmp` (o)	Compare with another Object obj.
`opEquals` (o)	Test whether `this` is equal to `o`. The default implementation only compares by identity (using the `is` operator). Generally, overrides and overloads for `opEquals` should attempt to compare objects by their contents. A class will most likely want to add an overload that takes your specific type as the argument and does the content comparison. Then you can override this and forward it to your specific typed overload with a cast. Remember to check for `null` on the typed overload.
`toHash` ()	Compute hash function for Object.
`toString` ()	Convert Object to a human readable string.

Aliases

Name	Description
`put`	put enables OutBuffer to be used as an OutputRange.

Example

import std.string : cmp;

OutBuffer buf = new OutBuffer();

writeln(buf.offset); // 0
buf.write("hello");
buf.write(cast(byte) 0x20);
buf.write("world");
buf.printf(" %d", 62665);
writeln(cmp(buf.toString(), "hello world 62665")); // 0

buf.clear();
writeln(cmp(buf.toString(), "")); // 0
buf.write("New data");
writeln(cmp(buf.toString(), "New data")); // 0

Authors

Walter Bright

License

Boost License 1.0.