On 23 Sep 2016 at 7:58, Vinnie Falco wrote:
One point brought up during the conference is that Beast does not offer sufficient higher level HTTP functionality. This omission is intentional. It is my idea to offer the building blocks (serializing and deserializing HTTP/1 messages, in synchronous and asynchronous flavors, and a universal HTTP message model), upon which other developers more knowledgeable than me could build those interfaces.
Time to be mildly harsh. I'll repeat my main observation made during the Http review: Almost everyone here and in the wider C++ community wants somebody to take the HTTP client API from the Python Requests module (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/) and very closely replicate it in C++ (it need not be Python Requests specifically, just some well established highly regarded high level HTTP API battle tested over many years - the key part here is DO NOT try reinventing the wheel over well established practice). We don't care about async, memory copying, performance, use of std::string, parsing, use of ASIO, serialisation or any of that other detail until somebody gets the bloody top end API implemented and stop wasting time on these currently unimportant implementation details. AFTER somebody has implemented a close replica of Requests which is fully functional - and very few here would care how it is internally implemented so long as the public API design is solid - THEN the refinement of implementation can begin. As I was saying to David Sankel and Roland Bock yesterday when we were discussing HTTP and BEAST, I really wouldn't care if you stuck O(N^N) complexity loops into your implementation and throw in a pointless sleep(500ms) for good measure in an initial implementation. *I don't care about the quality of the implementation*. I only care, for now, about the solid design of the top level API. Once we have a working implementation of that which has passed Boost peer review, everything else will follow naturally. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/