Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Poll: Next Features to Implement

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Mark Wright
<mar...@in...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cpp-netlib is really neat, thanks for writing this great library.
>

Thanks Mark!

> I think it would be really great if cpp-netlib had more support for
> XML REST web server and clients, and smtp client, so I vote for:
>
>  * web framework
>  * more message algorithms (transforms, renderers)
>  * smtp client
>
> cpp-netlib REST XML clients and servers that are interopable with
> C# WCF REST clients and servers would be really neat.  Then it
> would be interesting to run some benchmark tests to see how
> C++ netlib XML REST clients and servers perform vs C# clients
> and servers.

REST-full web services can definitely be already implemented with the
HTTP server template. Are you looking for an example on how to do
this? A framework wouldn't be very hard to implement, but will depend
largely on conventions that most web services already need -- URI
handling/routing, request parsing, REST method dispatch, etc. I'll
look into writing up a simple example and then allowing others to
extend into a full framework. I can be involved in that process too
and it would be interesting to see where that goes.

As far as XML is concerned, it might be outside the scope of the library.
[snip links]

Thanks very much for the links, I've read pretty much all of these before. :)

>
> Thanks very much,
>

Thank you very much too, I'll look into implementing the web framework
parts in an example first and let others pick up if they find it
interesting to work on too. I'll schedule that in the 0.8 release and
focus on the HTTP parts for 0.7.

Have a great day and I hope this helps!

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com