[Solved] Packet - basic_string<unsigned char>

[felaugmar]

I'm using OpenSSL here;
When using AES cryptographic, it generates a Key and IV with the type unsigned char*.
It's easy to put into a std::string doing reinterpret_cast<char *> when generating.

But, why there's not those functions in Packet class?

Packet& Packet::operator >>(std::basic_string<unsigned char>& data)
Packet& Packet::operator <<(const std::basic_string<unsigned char>& data)

It's because they'll not be much used?

And I know, packing symmetric keys directly in mostly all cases is a bad idea. 

[eXpl0it3r]

Mostly because we can't provide overload for all possible types in the world.

We already have overloads for:

char*
wchar_t*
std::string = std::basic_string<char>
std::wstring = std::basic_string<wchar_t>
sf::String

basic_string<unsigned char> is not really that common of a type, but if you really need it, I think you can provide your own overloads for it as free functions (I'm not certain if that actually works though).

[felaugmar]

Yeah, it's not a very common type 😁