Hi Dirk,
I am currently trying to compile this project with GCC / MINGW under eclipse. With eclipse, I should be able to provide a unix compatible makefile. Once produced, could you be kind enough to test ?
To answer your thoughts : - PugiXML (or any C++ library with XPATH support) is a very efficient way to bind C++ with XML. It seems natural to provide an example using it. I'll provide also a very simple example without. - std::wstring_convert. It is necessary for utf8 support, but you're right, it seems not to be supported. I removed all references to it, but there will not be any utf8 support.
Cheers
Jean-Marc
2014/1/8 Dirk Kirsten dk@basex.org
Hi Jean-Marc,
I did take a (very) quick look at it. However, I failed to compile this on my linux machine using gcc. Some thoughts:
- PugiXML seems to be used just for the example, I guess (because
requiring another XPath processor to connect to BaseX would be weird). Seems easier to me to simplify the example and just execute a simple XQuery without relying on PugiXML
- You use TCHAR, this seems to be windows specific.
- std::wstring_convert isn't supported by gcc, it seems
- It would be really nice to have a simply Makefile
- Please be careful with case-sensitivity. BasexClient.h and
BaseXClient.h aren't the same using a case-sensitive file system.
In general, I think it would be very beneficial for BaseX to have an C++ client which compiles on every major platform. So we might want to add a more polished version of your connector to the official BaseX release. However, as already mentioned, there still seems to be some work to do and I am not sure anyone in the BaseX core team has any particular C++ skills ... so every outside contribution is (as always) more than welcome.
Cheers, Dirk
On 08/01/14 15:13, jean-marc Mercier wrote:
Hi all,
C++ users could be interested in this first "quick and dirty" version of
a
C++ API for BaseX, located at https://github.com/JohnLeM/BaseXCPPAPI.
Even
if this v0.0 version is built upon Visual C++ 2012 Express, the C++ code should be multi platform. Hence, if there is any C++ / Unix / gcc BaseX users, do not hesitate to ask for a make file.
To BaseX team : you could also be interested to including a cleaner
version
of this work to your API set for your C++ clients.
This API is built upon :
- boost::asio libray for the TCP connector (http://www.boost.org/)
- PugiXML (https://code.google.com/p/pugixml/) for a lightweight C++
parser
with XPATH 1.0 support.
The provided example is a simple construction of an integer list.
Cheers
Jean-Marc
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