webcc

A lightweight C++ REST and SOAP client and server library based on Boost.Asio.

Please turn to our Wiki for more tutorials and guides, or just follow the links below:

• Integrate Into Your Project
• Logging
• SOAP Client Tutorial
• SOAP Server Tutorial
• REST Server Tutorial

Build Instructions

A lot of C++11 features are used, e.g., std::move. But C++14 is not required. (It means that you can still build webcc using VS2013 on Windows.)

CMake 3.1.0+ is required as the build system. But if you don't use CMake, you can just copy the src/webcc folder to your own project then manage it by yourself, though some changes are needed to make it work. See Wiki/Integrate Into Your Project for more details.

C++ Boost should be 1.66+ because Asio made some broken changes to the API in 1.66.

Build Options

The following CMake options determine how you build the projects. They are quite self-explanatory.

option(WEBCC_ENABLE_SOAP "Enable SOAP support (need pugixml)?" ON)
option(WEBCC_ENABLE_SSL "Enable SSL/HTTPS support (need OpenSSL)?" OFF)
option(WEBCC_ENABLE_UNITTEST "Build unit test?" ON)
option(WEBCC_ENABLE_EXAMPLES "Build examples?" ON)

set(WEBCC_ENABLE_LOG 1 CACHE STRING "Enable logging? (0:OFF, 1:ON)")
set(WEBCC_LOG_LEVEL 2 CACHE STRING "Log level (0:VERB, 1:INFO, 2:WARN, 3:ERRO or 4:FATA)")

Options WEBCC_ENABLE_LOG and WEBCC_LOG_LEVEL together define how logging behaves. See Wiki/Logging for more details.

If WEBCC_ENABLE_SOAP is 1, pugixml (already included) is used to parse and compose XML strings.

Build On Linux

Create a build folder under the root (or any other) directory, and cd to it:

mkdir build
cd build

Generate Makefiles with the following command:

cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~ \
    -DWEBCC_ENABLE_LOG=1 \
    -DWEBCC_LOG_LEVEL=2 \
    -DWEBCC_ENABLE_SOAP=ON \
    -DWEBCC_ENABLE_SSL=OFF \
    -DWEBCC_ENABLE_UNITTEST=OFF \
    -DWEBCC_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=ON \
    ..

Feel free to change the build options. CMake variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX defines where to install the output library and header files. The default is /usr/local.

If everything is OK, then you can build with make:

$ make -j4  # or -j8, depending on how many CPU cores you have.

Then install:

$ make install