Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Proposal: Utilities Directory

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

On 11 February 2010 15:25, Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>wrote:

> I was thinking about this a little and thought it would be cool to
> have a collection of utilities of commonly-performed actions that
> others might find useful in the library. Off the top of my head I find
> that these would be cool functions/mini-libraries to have:
>
>  * MIME Parser (Marshall Clow has a cool one worthy of more attention
> and discussion, hopefully he merges it into cpp-netlib in time for
> BoostCon 2010 ;) ).
>

Where can I get this? Does Marshall intend to merge his work into cpp-netlib
or submit it directly to boost?


>  * Form encoding/decoding (for HTTP clients/servers to handle HTML
> form encoded data)
>

Yes, something in namespace `boost::network::http::forms` ?


>  * Query string encoding/decoding (for GET queries)


This has been proposed before, but I don't think it's ever been
implemented.


 * Base64 stream/string encoding/decoding (for Binary data)
>

Boost.Serialization already defines base64 encoding/decoding functions, and
I would guess that the MIME implementation you mentioned above would too.

 * URI pattern-based dispatch (ala Rails, or Django/Tornado)
>

Cool.


>
> I find myself wanting to write these myself or at least using them
> when I write programs that use cpp-netlib. Simple things like for HTTP
> server based applications I want to be able to parse a list of
> parameters (remembering what Jeroen was proposing to do with the URI
> parser one time).
>
> Any takers? It would be cool if we had these in the library before May
> where I will be presenting the library and the techniques used in the
> library at a high level. ;)
>
>
Can you add them to the issue tracker, and maybe also to the wiki?  This
way, anyone who is interested in participating can find something to do.
G