Use svn_stream_from_stringbuf(). That will put the contents of the file into the stringbuf, which you can access after the cat2() call is done.
NOTE: be very careful of reading file contents into memory. You really don't want to try and read a 16 gigabyte file this way. Cheers, -g On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 03:29, Grigory Petrov <grigory....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I need to programmatically get content of a specified revision of > versioned file. I think svn_client_cat2() will do a good job, but the > first parameter, "svn_stream_t* out" puzzles me a bit. I have read > about "streams" in corresponding header file (not a very long reading) > and it seems to be that using stream as output buffer for > svn_client_cat2() is terribly complicated: i need to create stream, > supply it to baton and read/write functions, write code for that > functions that will queue and dequeue bindary data to and from buffer > associated with baton... This seems to be a lot of code. Is it any way > to create a simple svn_stream_t* that will act as a memory buffer so i > can give it to svn_client_cat2() and on success just get all data > received as a single memory buffer? > > Any comments and insights are welcome! > > Best, > Grigory. >
