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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

A Composite/Visitor pattern for expression processing


To demonstrate the journey from the GoF pattern catalog to Observables, we will model a four-function calculator as a running example. Since expression trees or AST are hierarchical in nature, they will be a good example to model as a Composite pattern. We have purposefully omitted writing a parser to keep the code listing small:

#include <iostream> 
#include <memory> 
#include <list> 
#include <stack> 
#include <functional> 
#include <thread> 
#include <future> 
#include <random> 
#include "FuncCompose.h" // available int the code base 
using namespace std; 
//---------------------List of operators supported by the evaluator 
enum class OPERATOR{ ILLEGAL,PLUS,MINUS,MUL,DIV,UNARY_PLUS,UNARY_MINUS };  

We have defined an enum type to represent the four binary operators (+ , - , * , /) and two unary operators (+ , -). Other than the standard C++ headers, we have included a custom header (FuncCompose...