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Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Anton Polukhin Alekseevic
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Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Anton Polukhin Alekseevic

Overview of this book

If you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you. Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string, numbers to numbers and more. Managing resources will become a piece of cake. You’ll see what kind of work can be done at compile time and what Boost containers can do. You will learn everything for the development of high quality fast and portable applications. Write a program once and then you can use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android operating systems. From manipulating images to graphs, directories, timers, files, networking – everyone will find an interesting topic. Be sure that knowledge from this book won’t get outdated, as more and more Boost libraries become part of the C++ Standard.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Accepting incoming connections


A server-side working with a network often looks like a sequence where we first get the new connection, read data, then process it, and then send the result. Imagine that we are creating some kind of authorization server that must process huge amount of requests per second. In that case, we need to accept, receive, send asynchronously, and process tasks in multiple threads.

In this recipe, we'll see how to extend our tasks_processor class to accept and process incoming connections, and, in the next recipe, we'll see how to make it multithreaded.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a good knowledge of boost::asio::io_service basics as described in the first recipes of this chapter. Some knowledge about network communications will be of help to you. Knowledge of boost::function and information from at least two previous recipes is also required. Link this recipe with the boost_system and boost_thread libraries. Define BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_HANDLER_TYPE_REQUIREMENTS...