From 09c2dafba51e742d6170dc29b43bcc277895a9b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Kjist=C3=B3f?= <mrtoth@strongds.hu>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 14:30:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added a length() method for checking message length

---
 chat_messages.hpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chat_messages.hpp b/chat_messages.hpp
index 4ebe687..ee9dd27 100644
--- a/chat_messages.hpp
+++ b/chat_messages.hpp
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ namespace chat
 
         std::string get_content() const
         { return _content; }
+
+        size_t length() const
+        { return sizeof(char) + _content.size() + sizeof(char); }
     };
 
     std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const chat_message& msg)