Re: string ToString() const;

2008-11-14 Thread Kenton Varda
Copying strings by value is rather inefficient, so the idea is to discourage it. That said, there is a patch outstanding that implements a SerializeAsString() method which does what you want. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we please have a ToString that retu

string ToString() const;

2008-11-14 Thread ctouma
Can we please have a ToString that returns a string in PB. I'm tired of writing the following code: string annoying_tmp; my_pb.AppendToString(annoying_tmp); SomeFunctionThatWritesAString(annoying_tmp); When I could be doing: SomeFunctionThatWritesAString(mt_pb.ToString()); Many classes at google