Pipable

Description

A Pipable Filter can appear as a component of a pipline.

Certian overloads of operator| must be defined to make a Filter Pipable; this is achieved by invoking the macro BOOST_IOSTREAMS_PIPABLE.

Refinement of

Filter.

Associated Types

Same as Filter.

Notation

`P`	-	A type which is a model of Pipable
`C`	-	A type which is a model of Filter or Device and which is CopyConstructible ^[1]
`p`	-	Object of type `P`
`c`	-	Object of type `C`

Valid Expressions / Semantics

Expression	Expression Type	Semantics
`f \| c`	implementation-defined	Returns a pipeline corresponding to the sequence `f`, `c`

Exceptions

None.

Models

All the Filters provided by the Iostreams library.

^[1]This requirement prevents streams and stream buffers from appearing in pipelines without the use of reference wrappers. This restriction may be removed in a future version of the Iostreams library.

Revised 02 Feb 2008

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)