I am building a server-client application that involves heavy signal processing (e.g. FFT). I have a working application written in C++/Qt, where everything (signal processing and other calculations) is done in client and server just sends raw data. Now I feel it would be easier to implement these features on the server. So, that maintenance becomes easier. As I am doing signal processing, I think I should stick to C++ for performance. But I am open to new ideas. Constraints: I need type checking so javascript is out of discussion. Scaling includes adding more server and each server will have at the max 10-12 users. So, Hardware cost is important. I cannot use x number of i7 processors. No option of using cloud services. So, right now my question is as follows: How can I create web services using C++ for Linux server? (Although cross platform is not important, I would appreciate if I can achieve it.) EDIT [02:09:2015] Right now, I think the choice is between poco and C++ Rest SDK. I feel I should go for C++ Rest SDK. Mainly because it has only those features that I need. And Also it is supported by microsoft and uses boost internally. So, I feel in future, this might be well integreated with standard.

user21071987

Reputation: 85

Web Services using C++

I am building a server-client application that involves heavy signal processing (e.g. FFT). I have a working application written in C++/Qt, where everything (signal processing and other calculations) is done in client and server just sends raw data. Now I feel it would be easier to implement these features on the server. So, that maintenance becomes easier.

As I am doing signal processing, I think I should stick to C++ for performance. But I am open to new ideas. Constraints:

I need type checking so javascript is out of discussion.
Scaling includes adding more server and each server will have at the max 10-12 users. So, Hardware cost is important. I cannot use x number of i7 processors.
No option of using cloud services.

So, right now my question is as follows:

How can I create web services using C++ for Linux server? (Although cross platform is not important, I would appreciate if I can achieve it.)

EDIT [02:09:2015]

Right now, I think the choice is between poco and C++ Rest SDK. I feel I should go for C++ Rest SDK. Mainly because it has only those features that I need. And Also it is supported by microsoft and uses boost internally. So, I feel in future, this might be well integreated with standard.

Upvotes: 1

Answers (4)

Dasun

Reputation: 3294

If you directly handle HTTP requests, you might loose the functionality what Web Servers does well what it was build to do. I had a similar issue, what I did was wrap up my Qt c++ code inside a PHP extension. In your case you can do the same. Wrap your logic inside what ever technology you are about to use, doesn't matter it's PHP, net , Java or anything else.

Upvotes: 0

vinipsmaker

Reputation: 2397

Like @nogard suggested, I also recommend POCO for now. It's the most serious and feature-full solution. Given you mentioned Qt, I suggest you to take a look at Tufão.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention one comparison of mine on the C++ HTTP server frameworks.

Upvotes: 1

mattnewport

Reputation: 14057

You might want to take a look at the C++ Rest SDK, an open source, cross platform API from Microsoft.

Upvotes: 1

nogard

Reputation: 9706

You could use cross-platform Poco library to implement HTTP server, it is really straightforward with this framework, and they have a lot of examples. You can also use JSON serialization (like rapidjson library) to implement REST service on top of HTTP - this way your Web service will be accesable by most of the modern Web frameworks.

Upvotes: 2

Web Services using C++

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