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Abruzzo Forte e Gentile
Abruzzo Forte e Gentile

Reputation: 14869

about C++ rest sdk and synchronous calls

I have started working with 'cpp rest sdk'. The key point I understood it that all requests and response are asynchronous using the means of PPL. This is fine to boost scalability and performance of the application.

The question I have is weather is any way to request and wait for a response in a 'synchronous' fashion.

I found the following web page which seems to work fine and it claims to make call in synchronous way. Is it so?

Does a call to task::get() guarantees that the function returns when the response is ready to be read?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2104

Answers (1)

davidhigh
davidhigh

Reputation: 15498

The major idea of asynchronous programming is to chain all parts you want to have executed sequentially. If you want the program to wait until the sequence is finished, you can end the chain with .wait()

client.request(web::http::methods::GET, U("/foo.html"))
      .then(/*some lambda*/)
      .then(/*some lambda*/)   //and so on
      .wait();                 //stop here until the chain is executed

Similarly, you can also use get() which also calls wait() but further returns the result of the task.

Upvotes: 1

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