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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