Hello,

I still can't connect to BaseX. I checked that I sent to the server exactly the same bytes than the C# connector that worked on my configuration.

Is there any way to make the BaseX server echoing any input request on a particular socket to check exactly what my TCP connector is sending ?



2014/1/5 jean-marc Mercier <jeanmarc.mercier@gmail.com>
Dirk,

Thx. Well, I am suffering a lot to develop this C++ BaseX API. I did not succeed in installing the openssl MD5 algorithm, but I finally found a MD5 algorithm that seems to work (at least, it seems to compute the MD5 hash for "admin" correctly). However, after two days, I still can't connect to the BaseX server, and can't figure out why...

Concerning TCP connectors, I think that it is wiser to use boost::asio library : it is not MS, and seems to becoming the C++ network standard library.

Since this C++ BaseX API'fate is to be published (provided we can make it work!), maybe somebody in BaseX team, that have some experience with C++, could have a look to it ? I put the current code at https://github.com/JohnLeM/BaseXCPPAPI, as a bottle in the sea :(






2014/1/5 Dirk Kirsten <dk@basex.org>
Hello Jean-Marc,

I see your point. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience doing
Windows socket programming (nor do I run any Windows OS), so I am of not
much help here. But I would guess the C code can be quite easily
replaced (e.g. OpenSSL is most likely just used for the md5 computation)
and based on some articles like
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13071/Programming-Windows-TCP-Sockets-in-C-for-the-Begin
I would guess windows socket programming can be done quite similar to
Unix sockets.

Cheers,
Dirk

On 03/01/14 11:33, jean-marc Mercier wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> Thanx for your answer. Indeed, I tried to install the existing C API. For
> windows user :
>
> Some *.h, *.c files of the BaseX C API seems to work only with a gcc
> compiler. Some others one don't even exists under windows, at least I did
> not found them :
> 1) the BaseX C API seems to use the open SSL framework. I did download and
> install it, but have some problem to compile it with Visual C++ Express.
> 2) Some needed c/h files (see for instance "#include <unistd.h>) are
> located in the MinGW distribution for windows. However, these files are
> bound to GCC compiler, and can not be compiled with Microsoft compiler.
>
> Indeed, I am trying to mimic in C++ the C# API, that works on my
> configuration. But it is not easy for me, since I never manipulated sockets
> and TCP connectors, and will take me a lot of time. Thus, if anyone already
> did the work, that would be so nice to share :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jean-Marc
>
>
>
>
> 2014/1/3 Dirk Kirsten <dk@basex.org>
>
>> Hello Jean-Marc,
>>
>> What problems did you experience when using the provided C API
>> (https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/tree/master/src/main/c) under
>> Windows 7? It should also work under windows.
>> Additionally, you can find the source code of the C API at the basex-api
>> repository, so this should give you a starting point if you ant to
>> rewrite anything.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dirk
>>
>> On 03/01/14 11:12, jean-marc Mercier wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> going back to the root... I am trying to connect my favorite C++ tools to
>>> BaseX.
>>> Unfortunately, I am using visual C++ 12 Express under windows 7. It seems
>>> that windows users will not be able to use the existing BaseX API C
>>> connector, and need another one. Thus I started to code a C++ BaseX API
>>> connector.
>>>
>>> Writing a API connector is quite difficult for me, since I don't have the
>>> required networks knowledge.
>>>
>>> Has somebody already some code to that purposes ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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