From dd79eed4959f57e0c94d0a8038202fc2bc3ab087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuriy Chernyshov <thegeorg@yandex-team.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:30:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce convenient implicit operator string_view (#8181)

Co-authored-by: Derek Bailey <derekbailey@google.com>
---
 include/flatbuffers/string.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/flatbuffers/string.h b/include/flatbuffers/string.h
index 97e399fd6..00cc18c9a 100644
--- a/include/flatbuffers/string.h
+++ b/include/flatbuffers/string.h
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ struct String : public Vector<char> {
   flatbuffers::string_view string_view() const {
     return flatbuffers::string_view(c_str(), size());
   }
+
+  /* implicit */
+  operator flatbuffers::string_view() const {
+    return flatbuffers::string_view(c_str(), size());
+  }
   #endif // FLATBUFFERS_HAS_STRING_VIEW
   // clang-format on