如何通过boost property_tree加密xml文件？

Question

Now I want to generate one encrypted XML file through Boost ptree .

    using boost::property_tree::ptree;
    ptree   pt;

    pt.add("License.Unalterable.Signed.Guid", m_Guid);
    pt.add("License.Unalterable.Signed.CustomerId", m_CustomerId);
    pt.add("License.Unalterable.Signed.Name", m_Name);
    pt.add("License.Unalterable.Signed.Version", m_version);

    write_xml(licenseFileName, pt);

I want to encrypt the whole xml file before write_xml() is called. Through reading the codes of write_xml , I know the xml nodes are read from ptree one by one, then write them into fstream immediately one by one. Is there any way to get the whole xml data stream before write it to file? so that I can encrypt the whole data stream, then write them to file.

Currently, My solution is that reread this xml file after created by write_xml , then write it back after encrypting the xml content.

Answer 1

The commenters suggested this:

std::ostringstream oss;
write_xml(oss, pt);

// now you can encrypt
std::string plain_text = oss.str();

Now you can encrypt the plaintext and write the ciphertext to a file