Arduino Convert std:string to String

Question

I'm working on BLE project with espressif library. And It returns me founded BLE device.

std::string getManufacturerData();
std::string getName();
int getRSSI();
BLEScan* getScan();

When I want to print device name to serial port

BLEAdvertisedDevice founded_dev;
founded_dev=foundDevices.getDevice(0);
Serial.println("Name -> " + founded_dev.getName());

It gives me error like this

no matching function for call to 'HardwareSerial::println(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>)'

So how can i convert to std:string to String in Arduino?

Answer 1

Don't. Instead just access the underlying C string:

Serial.print(F("Name -> "));
Serial.println(founded_dev.getName().c_str());

• Tom Auger: That works for getName() but not some of the other methods such as BLEAdvertisedDevice::getAddress() or BLEAdvertisedDevice::getServiceUUID()
• Majenko: @TomAuger That's because they don't return a string. The first returns a BLEAddress, the second a BLEUUID. Custom types that will need special handling.
• Majenko: For the UUID you can use getServiceUUID().toString().c_str(), For the address you can use: getAddress().toString().c_str().