Beast.WebSocket provides developers with a robust WebSocket
implementation built on Boost.Asio with a consistent asynchronous
model using a modern C++ approach.
New classes are introduced to represent HTTP messages and their
associated bodies. The parser interface is reworked to use CRTP,
error codes, and trait checks.
New classes:
* basic_headers
Models field/value pairs in a HTTP message.
* message
Models a HTTP message, body behavior defined by template argument.
Parsed message carries metadata generated during parsing.
* parser
Produces parsed messages.
* empty_body, string_body, basic_streambuf_body
Classes used to represent content bodies in various ways.
New functions:
* read, async_read, write, async_write
Read and write HTTP messages on a socket.
New concepts:
* Body: Represents the HTTP Content-Body.
* Field: A HTTP header field.
* FieldSequence: A forward sequence of fields.
* Reader: Parses a Body from a stream of bytes.
* Writer: Serializes a Body to buffers.
basic_parser changes:
* add write methods which throw exceptions instead
* error_code passed via parameter instead of return value
* fold private member calls into existing callbacks
* basic_parser uses CRTP instead of virtual members
* add documentation on Derived requirements for CRTP
impl/http-parser changes:
* joyent renamed to nodejs to reflect upstream changes
Calculate the number of file descriptors that are needed during
execution based on the configuration file, with a hard floor
of 1024, adjusting the limit if possible. Refuse to run if enough
fds are not available.
Additionally, allow administrators to limit the number of incoming
connections a configured port will accept. By default no limit is
imposed.
Replace Journal public data members with member function accessors
in order to make Journal lighter weight. The change makes a
Journal cheaper to pass by value.
Also add missing stream checks (e.g., calls to JLOG) to avoid
text processing that ultimately will not be stored in the log.
The Journal API is affected. There are two uses for the
Journal::Severity enum:
o It is used to declare a threshold which log messages must meet
in order to be logged.
o It declares the current logging level which will be compared
to the threshold.
Those uses that affect the threshold are now named threshold()
rather than severity() to make the uses easier to distinguish.
Additionally, Journal no longer carries a Severity variable.
All handling of the threshold() is now delegated to the
Journal::Sink.
Sinks are no longer constructed with a default threshold of
kWarning; their threshold must be passed in on construction.
Class io_list manages children that perform asynchronous
I/O operations. The treatment of close and destruction is
refactored to fix race conditions during exit.
