Asynchronous reading is a flexible and efficient way to receive data from a remote application. In this recipe, we will see how to read data from a TCP socket asynchronously.
The most basic tool used to asynchronously read data from a TCP socket provided by the Boost.Asio library is the async_read_some() method of the asio::ip::tcp::socket class. Here is one of the method's overloads:
template<
typename MutableBufferSequence,
typename ReadHandler>
void async_read_some(
const MutableBufferSequence & buffers,
ReadHandler handler);This method initiates an asynchronous read operation and returns immediately. It accepts an object that represents a mutable buffer as its first argument to which the data will be read from the socket. The second argument is a callback that is called by Boost.Asio when the operation is completed. This argument can be a function pointer, a functor, or any other object that satisfies the requirements...